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Initiation

 

1. Which of the following is true of learning? 

a. Learning involves a change 

b. The thing that changes as a consequence of learning is behaviour c. Learning occurs through experience. 

d. All of the above 

e. None of the above 

 

2. Repeated presentations of a tactile stimulus make the skin receptors less sensitive,  and responding decreases across trials. What is this an example of? 

a) Habituation. 

b) Sensitization. 

c) Sensory adaptation. 

d) Response fatigue. 

e) Dishabituation

 

3. Your friend is afraid of dogs because he was bitten as a child. One day while he  was playing catch in a park, a pack of dogs wandered into his view (but they did not  bite or attack him). Now he avoids parks, but not other public places. His change in  behaviour is likely due to  

a) habituation.  

b) sensitization.  

c) second-order conditioning. 

d) dishabituation. 

e) conditioned inhibition

 

4. When I was a child, as a joke my mother used to put on a goalie mask, start up her  chain saw, and chase the neighborhood children around until they passed out from  fright. Even now I have a phobia of goalie masks and cannot watch a hockey game  without soiling myself. For me, the goalie mask is a(n): 

a) Conditioned stimulus 

b) Unconditioned stimulus 

c) Conditioned Response 

d) Unconditioned Response 

e) Beautiful thing

 

5. If you are afraid of dogs because you had a bad experience with a dog as a small  child but then your family gets a docile Labradoodle and you have no bad experiences  with it and so your fear slowly goes away, but then you go to the local park and you  see another Labradoodle and you feel somewhat afraid this is an example of renewal  and it demonstrates that: 

a) Extinction is context-specific. 

b) Extinction is not context-specific.  

c) Extinction results in low levels of conditioned responding.  

d) Responding recovers after a period of time following extinction. e) Extinction results of associative loss 

 

 

6. Which of the following is a sensory preconditioning procedure? 

a) Coffee and glucose paired together followed by glucose and sickness paired  together followed by a preference test of coffee. 

b) Coffee and glucose paired together followed by glucose and sickness paired  together followed by a preference test of glucose.  

c) Glucose and sickness paired together followed by glucose and coffee paired  together followed by a preference test of coffee.  

d) Coffee and sickness paired together followed by glucose and coffee paired together  followed by a preference test of coffee. 

 

In sensory preconditioning CS1 is paired with CS2 and then CS1 is paired with a US  and as a consequence a conditioned response develops to CS2. The only example  above which fits all of these criteria is option a.

 

7. I am involved in a car crash and I am shaken but unhurt. However, when a little  time later, I see a large spider, I am terrified of it. Which account is consistent with  my experiences? 

a) Second-order conditioning. 

b) Pavlovian conditioning. 

c) Operant conditioning. 

d) Opponent-process theory. 

e) Dual-process theory. 

 

8. It is possible to make a light reduce a salivation response by training with:  a) tone followed by food and tone and light followed by no food. 

b) tone followed by no food and tone and light followed by food.  

c) tone followed by no food and tone and light followed by no food.  d) tone followed by food and tone and light followed by food. 

e) none of the above 

 

9. When you initially fall in love you feel extremely happy being in the company of  your lover, after a period of time of being a couple you feel content when you are  together but you feel extremely lonely and sad when your lover goes overseas for six  months. This is consistent with:  

a) Dual-process theory 

b) Contingency theory 

c) Incentive theory 

d) Reinforcement theory 

e) Opponent-process theory

 

10. After eating a foot-long spicy chili dog at the homecoming game, your friend  becomes violently ill. Now he cannot stand to eat chilli, but still loves hot dogs. His  ability to eat hot dogs was likely spared because of: 

a) discrimination training. 

b) stimulus generalization. 

c) overshadowing. 

d) contextual conditioning. 

e) conditioned inhibition.

 

11. Kate suffers from a severe fear of heights. A behaviour therapist is likely to  attempt to: 

a. Attempt to probe her unconscious to determine the cause of her phobia b. Use principles of conditioning to reduce or remove her fear 

c. Demonstrate that her fear is irrational 

d. Determine how her family contributed to the development of her fear e. Help her achieve self-actualization & Behaviour therapists are interested in using treating the behavioural symptoms which  cause people distress using behaviour modification techniques  

17. Robin sells cars at an auto dealership, and she earns a commission for each car  that she sells. Based on what is known about schedules of reinforcement, you should  conclude that Robin's car selling is being reinforced based on a: 

a. fixed-ratio schedule 

b. variable-ratio schedule 

c. fixed-interval schedule 

d. variable-interval schedule 

e. classical conditioning

 

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