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Learning 1. A victim of sexual harassment at work is highly uncomfortable when male co-workers tell 'dirty jokes', yet laughs at a dirty joke told by her husband. Her different responses to seemingly similar situations are an example of: a. selective extinction b. stimulus discrimination c. adaptive generalisation d. spontaneous recovery 2. Extinction in classical conditioning: a. depends upon the frequency of pairing of the CS and UCS b. is usually temporary c. results from the omission of the UCS d. is a result of the omission of the CS and UCS 3. Regarding conditioning, prepared learning refers to: a. an organism's ability to be conditioned to endure changes in the way it responds on the basis of experience b. the ability of an organism to learn to operate on the environment to produce a desired consequence c. the biologically wired preparedness of an organism to learn some associations more easily than others d. the expectancy that one cannot escape aversive events and must therefore be prepared for emotional disturbances 4. In negative reinforcement, an increase in behaviour follows: a. the application of punishment b. removal of something aversive c. positive punishment d. none of the above 5. Which of the following is not a problem with punishment? a. sometimes it is difficult for young children or animals to understand what behaviour is being punished. b. the person being punished may become afraid of the person punishing them. c. punishment may make it difficult for rewards to work in other situations. d. punishment doesn't necessarily work if rewards for the behaviour aren't eliminated. 6. Every time you order a chicken dinner from KFC, you get a card stamped. After you buy ten dinners, you get one for free. KFC has you on what type of reinforcement schedule? a. fixed interval b. variable interval c. fixed ratio d. variable ratio

Learning 7. Generalised expectancies: a. refer to the behaviour of others b. involve explaining unpleasant events c. are expectancies that influence a wide variety of behaviours d. we hold about the causes of our own behaviour 8. Which of the following is the best example of observational learning? a. A student refuses to study for an important exam because her roommate has already finished studying b. A dancer learns a new routine through weeks of intensive practice and discipline c. A returning student slowly re-learns to speak French after years of not speaking the language d. A teenager begins to wear bell-bottoms after seeing a contemporary movie in which the star wore bell-bottoms 9. In classical conditioning, the most effective form of temporal relationship between the CS and UCS involves: a. forward conditioning b. backward conditioning c. simultaneous conditioning d. paradoxical conditioning 10. Negative reinforcement ______ rate of a response; punishment ______ the rate of a response. a. Increases; decreases b. Decreases; increases c. Increases; increases d. Decreases; decreases...