6. Learning

Whenever Vernon comes home too late on a Saturday night, his parents refuse to give him his weekly allowance. Vernon's parents are using what technique to modify his behavior?

A teacher has decided to give 'caught being good' tickets to her students when they behave according to class rules. This teacher also rewards students with gold stars each time they improve their math speed. This teacher is using

In order to increase reading among the students in her class, Mrs. Gomez, a second-grade teacher, has students record their reading by placing stickers on a large chart. For every 10 stickers, students receive a new book. Mrs. Gomez is using

A typical use of applied behavior analysis is

The mental events that take place inside a person's mind while behaving are known as

Kohler's idea of animal insight was controversial because

In Tolman's study of latent learning, one group of rats was rewarded for getting out of the maze, a second was not rewarded during training trials but was rewarded eventually, and a third group of rats was

In his study of rats in mazes, Tolman concluded that the rats in the group that did not receive reinforcement for solving the maze had

Learning that remains hidden until its application becomes useful is called

In Köhler's experiment, Sultan the chimp first used just one stick that was lying in his cage to rake the banana into the cage, and then he learned to fit two sticks together to reach a banana placed farther away. This was an example of

Further studies that followed Köhler's work with chimpanzees

The learning/performance distinction is a kind of

Köhler determined that insight

Seligman connects learned helplessness to

In Seligman's study on dogs, the dogs that were not conditioned to fear the tone