A child learns that whenever he eats all of his dinner he gets a cookie for dessert. This type of learning is BEST explained by ______
a. classical conditioning.
b. operant conditioning.
c. biofeedback theory.
d. social learning theory.
e. observational learning.
b. operant conditioning.
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If a woman has a Cesarean-section to deliver her first child, what is the most likely mode of delivery for her second child?
a. Vaginal birth b. Cesarean birth c. It would depend upon the age of the mother. d. The mother would choose vaginal or Cesarean depending upon what she prefers.
In his early work when he was his own experimental subject, the 29-year-old Wilhelm Wundt found that he could ____.?
a. ?pay attention to two things at once b. ?not pay attention to two things at once c. ?pay attention to two things at once, but not three d. ?pay attention to three things at once, but not four e. ?sustain his attention on one thing for a little less than 12 minutes at a time
Pavlov presented a sound followed by meat in his experiments. Gradually the sound came to elicit salivation. The salivation to the meat in this experiment was the ____
a. unconditioned stimulus b. unconditioned response c. conditioned stimulus d. conditioned response
It turns out that Jack (see item 7) can't remember anything that happened from the time he and Jill started up the hill. Jill takes Jack up the hill again and finds that he remembers seeing the well before. Jill is measuring forgetting by using ____________
a. relearning b. extinction c. free recall d. prompted recall