Psychology 387 - Learning (Athabasca) - Final Study Guide 2024 Graded A
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Psychology 387
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Athabasca University (AU
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____ is a counterconditioning procedure in which fear stimuli are placed on a hierarchy scale from least to most fearful. The individual is then trained to relax and with the therapist they work through those fear stimuli from least to most
a. systematic desensitization
b. virtual reality exposur...
PSYC 387 Final Prep Athabasca University Exam Questions and Answers 2024
Psychology 387 - Learning (Athabasca) -
Final Study Guide 2024 Graded A
____ is a counterconditioning procedure in which fear stimuli are placed on a
hierarchy scale from least to most fearful. The individual is then trained to relax
and with the therapist they work through those fear stimuli from least to most
a. systematic desensitization
b. virtual reality exposure therapy
c. trace therapy
d. aversion therapy - answer-✔✔systematic desensitization
True/False: Staats and Staats research showed that if a negative word is paired with
a certain ethnicity or race, negative feelings to the ethnicity/race are not more
likely. - answer-✔✔False
True/False: Parish et al. changed white children's feelings towards African
American people from negative to more positive. - answer-✔✔False
True/False: Olsson et al. were able to shift white people's feeling about African
Americans to more positive but it took many trials - answer-✔✔True
_____ are activities that some people get sexual pleasure from that other members
of society deem perverse or unnatural.
a. aversions
b. paraphilias
c. reflexes
,PSYC 387 Final Prep Athabasca University Exam Questions and Answers 2024
d. allergies - answer-✔✔paraphilias
Pfister et al. trained ____ to not eat locoweed, which is very toxic. This showed a
practical use of aversion therapy.
a. cows
b. horses
c. llamas
d. donkeys - answer-✔✔horses
____ was the first person to conduct experiments on the role of conditioning and
marketing.
a. Pfister
b. Garcia
c. Maletzky
d. Gorn - answer-✔✔Gorn
True/False: Gibson tried to see if her could sway people's preference from Coke to
Pepsi by pairing one with positive images and the other with negative images. He
was successful in this. - answer-✔✔False
____ can perhaps be a treatment for drug use because it can weaken the influence
of conditioned stimulus (needles, places etc.)
a. extinction
b. overshadowing
c. blocking
d. latent inhibition - answer-✔✔extinction
, PSYC 387 Final Prep Athabasca University Exam Questions and Answers 2024
True/ False: Woodruff-Pak and colleagues found that adults who learned poorly
through conditioning were much more likely to develop dementia later in life. -
answer-✔✔True
Sally is allergic to flowers, they cause her to sneeze violently. One-day, Sally saw
some flowers in a picture and she sneezed violently. This is an example of:
a. overshadowing
b. blocking
c. conditioned allergic reaction
d. allergy medicine withdrawal - answer-✔✔conditioned allergic reaction
E.L. Thorndike's studies of learning started as an attempt to understand:
a. operant conditioning
b. the psychic reflex
c. animal intelligence
d. maze learning - answer-✔✔animal intelligence
Thorndike complained that _______ evidence provided a "supernormal psychology
of animals."
a. anecdotal
b. case study
c. informal experiments
d. conversations - answer-✔✔anecdotal
Thorndike plotted the results of his puzzle box experiments as graphs. The
resulting curves show a _____ with succeeding trials.
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