If you get violently ill a couple of hours after eating contaminated food, you will probably develop an aversion to the taste of that food but not to the sight of the restaurant where you ate it. This best illustrates that associative learning is constrained by

Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place?

The sudden realization of a problem's solution is known as

For people who believe that others or outside forces (like luck or horoscopes) control their destiny is called?

A particular group of brain cells seems to provide a basis for observational learning. Researchers call these specialized cells...

After seeing her parents give her brother a dollar for cleaning his room, Sarah begins cleaning her own room. What would a social-learning theorist say is occurring?

A person who is fearful of rattlesnakes but not garden snakes is exhibiting...

In a classic study, a group of rats learned to run through a maze to obtain food, and another group of rats explored the maze without receiving good. Some time later, the researcher compared the two groups of rats to determine if both groups would find the food at the end of the maze. According to the researcher, the untrained rats found the food at the end of the maze as quickly as the trained rats as a result of

Edward Thorndike argued that responses that lead to satisfying outcomes are more likely to be repeated, and that responses followed by unpleasant outcomes are less likely to be repeated. This became known as the Law of...

the terms "modeling" and "imitation" are most closely associated with...

When a conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus, a resulting decrease in the conditioned response is called

A two-year old child is frightened by a small dog. A few weeks later the same child sees a cat and becomes frightened. The child's reaction is most likely an example of which of the following?