Birdsong learning is unusual in what way?
a. Females learn significantly faster than males
b. The learned song is forgotten unless it is practiced daily.
c. Birds cannot begin to learn until they are several years old.
d. Learning occurs while the bird makes no response and gets no reinforcement.
d
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A) shaping through successive approximations. B) a diffusion chain. C) a three-term contingency. D) stimulus generalization.
Young children often have difficulty with all of the following except
a. knowing whether they witnessed an event or experienced it second-hand. b. identifying whether they actually experienced something or just imagined it. c. knowing the difference between imagining and doing. d. knowing whether they performed a behavior or watched someone else perform it.
Rats with hippocampal damage will differ in which of the following ways from rats with intact hippocampi?
A. Previously extinguished freezing will reappear in response to the conditioned stimulus. B. Extinction of previously learned freezing behavior will generalize to all contexts. C. Extinction of previously learned freezing behavior will occur in the same place in which extinction training occurred, but freezing will occur in all other contexts. D. No differences will be observed, because the amygdala is responsible for managing context, not the hippocampus.
Sam is unpopular and has trouble making friends. He is aggressive and just last week started a fight by punching a boy who disagreed with him. Which of the following is most likely the case? Sam is a(n) ________ child
a. neglected b. rejected c. controversial d. average