Test Bank For Psychology 6th Edition All Chapters - 9780136636847

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 or to the sound of music you heard there. This best illustrates the impact of ________ on associative learning. {Ans: biological constraints}If the onset of a light reliably signals the onset of food, a rat in a Skinner box will work to turn on the light. In this case, the light is a ________ reinforcer. {Ans: conditioned}A pigeon receives food for pecking a key, but only rarely and on unpredictable occasions. This best illustrates {Ans: partial reinforcement}After Libby was promised a large reward for playing with a fun toy, she began to lose interest in playing with it. This best illustrates that excessive rewards can reduce {Ans: intrinsic motivation}If one chimpanzee watches a second chimp solve a puzzle for a food reward, the first chimp may thereby learn how to solve the puzzle. This best illustrates {Ans: observational learning}John B. Watson believed that psychology should be the science of {Ans: observable behavior}