Psychology Chapter 6

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You move from farm to city and you find that the traffic keeps you awake but then you get used to it. his is called
Habituation
Pavlov was also able to teach his dogs to salivate to the sound of a buzzer or the tick of a metronome, as long as he;:
Paired the tone overtime with the presentation of food
During ______, typically there is a gradual increase in learning, which starts low, rises rapidly, and slowly tapers off.
Acquisition
After the acquisition phase, the presentation of the white rate was enough to cause little albert to cry. rat was the:
CS
The part of the brain taht is essential to fear conditionining is the:
Amygdala
Behavior that requires an organism to act, solve a problem, or manipulate elements of its enviornment is called:
Instrumental behavior
In a research study on _____, pigeons were trained to discriminate between art by picasso and monet.
Stimulus control
All of the following are pleasure centers in the brain exept the:
Reticular formation
Learning that takes place by watching the actijons of others is called:
Observational learning
Most children have learned not to eat with their feet, an accomplishment that is likely a result of:
Implicit learning
The period in history of psychology during which most of the fundamental work in learning theory took place overlapped w/:
Behaviorism
When pavlov had taught his dogs to salivate to the sound of the buzzer, salivation became the:
CR
Money is initially used to produce objects which produle gratification, but some ppl = money is more valuable than goods. ex of:
Second-order conditioning
Watson's goals in his controversial study on little albert included all the following except:
Wanting to demonstrate that all animals, even children, have strong emotions
Introducing cognitive components into classical conditioning, rescorla and wagner theorized it occurs only when:
An animal has learned to set up an expectation