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PSY MISC

Chapter 6

Question1)Katrina is training her dog to sit whenever she points at him. She repeatedly points right before giving a verbal command. Her dog gradually learns to associate the pointing with the verbal command and will eventually sit when she points without the verbal command. This process of gradual learning is known as

 

 

Question 2

 

 

 

Fallon is afraid of loud sounds, like thunder. She associates lightning with thunder because it regularly precedes thunder. Thus, when Fallon sees lightning, she braces herself for hearing a big boom several seconds later. Fallon has experienced a certain kind of associative learning known as

 

 

 

 Question 3

 

 

Ever since she saw a snake eat a mouse at the reptile exhibit at the zoo, Jin has been terrified of snakes. Now Jin’s class has a pet snake and her teacher wants to help reduce Jin’s fear. The teacher begins by only uncovering the snake aquarium when Jin and her classmates are eating snack. This attempt at associating the snake with something positive is called

 

 

Question 4

 

 

 

Vincent wants to use systematic desensitization to treat his patient’s phobia of elevators. After the patient learns how to relax her muscles, Vincent’s next step should be to

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 5

 

Irina, who is three years old, was watching her father hammer a nail to join two pieces of wood. If Irina learns how to hammer wood together after this experience, it is most likely the result of

 

 

 

 

 

Question 6

 

Samantha tells her roommate that negative reinforcement and negative punishment are similar because they

 

 

 

 Question 7

 

A device in Jaclyn’s car beeps loudly whenever she brakes too quickly. After three months of using the device, Jaclyn’s insurance company will lower her rate if her driving improves. The device is being used as what type of operant-conditioning technique?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 8

 

 

 

Drugs like cocaine and amphetamines are reinforcing to the user, making it more likely that he or she will use again. This is because the drugs

 

 

Question 9

 

Reinforcement that comes after a predetermined amount of time is called a  

 

 

 

Question 10

 

 

Simon’s dog urinates in the house while he is at work. When he gets home and sees the mess, he yells, “Bad dog!” Which of the following is one reason why this attempt at positive punishment might not work to correct the dog’s behavior?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 11

 

Rosy bites her older brother whenever he doesn’t share his toys with her, so Rosy’s parents put her in time-out for biting. The next time her brother does not share his toys, Rosy hits him. Time-out has not corrected Rosy’s poor behavior because

 

 

Question 12

In operant conditioning, removing a stimulus to increase a behavior in the future is called  

 

 

Question 13

 

The gray wolves of the Northern Rocky Mountain region vomited after eating poisoned sheep meat. The wolves formed the association of feeling ill with preying on sheep. In this example, feeling ill is the

 

 

Question 14

If Pavlov repeatedly presented the conditioned stimulus, the metronome, without the unconditioned stimulus, the food, the dogs would stop salivating to the sound of the metronome. In classical conditioning, this process is called

 

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Question 15

Tina believes in John Locke’s idea of tabula rasa. When Tina’s baby is born, she expects the child will most likely

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 16

 

A conditioned stimulus is  

 

Question 17

Shanna is preparing for a study to explore how classical conditioning works. Before beginning her own study, it would be most helpful for Shanna to read about                          ’s research.

 

 

 

 

Question 18

 

Your history professor wants to help students learn how to write a high-quality research paper, so he posts an example of an “A” paper on the course website. You use this example as a template when writing your own paper. You have used                                         to write a good research paper.