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Psych of Learning Quiz 5
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
10/15/2013

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repeated alcohol intake may produce an opponent process involving which of the following A state?
Definition
increased intracellular chloride during alcohol intoxication
Term
repeated alcohol intake may produce an opponent process involving which of the following B state?
Definition
increased intracellular calcium during alcohol withdrawal
Term
second order conditioning is
Definition
conditioning of a CR to a new CS by pairing the new CS with an old CS (without the UCS)
for example, pavlovian dog example
Term
the suppression ratio is:
Definition
all of the above=
-a numerical value that is low when learning is strong and high when learning is weak
-related to punishers rather than positive reinforcers
-expressed as A/(A+B)
-never more than 0.5
(allen’s example with berries- ate 3 the first time and didn’t like them so the next time he saw the berries he didn’t eat them- 0/(0+3)= 0
Term
patients SP was characterized by the following principal pathology
Definition
- none of the above
- the neocortex
- hippocampus
- hypothalamus
- median forebrain bundle
- ****SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE AMYGDALA (was not a choice)
Term
cayman’s blocking effect refers to:
Definition
simultaneous presentation of an older CS (CS1) and the new CS (CS2)
Term
which of the following is false?

- Delayed conditioning is when no learning occurs on the first trial or several early trials
- Trace conditioning is when the CS is so weak that the subject has not even noticed its there
- Simultaneous conditioning is when the CS and the UCS are presented simultaneously
- Backward conditioning is when the UCS proceeds the CS
Definition
delayed conditioning and trace conditioning (first two
Term
consistently waking up before your alarm goes off is an example of:
Definition
temporal
Term
riscorla showed that the predictiveness of the CS enhances conditioning as follows
Definition
in all subjects the tone plus the shock were paired 40% of the time but in the worst learning group the shock was presented without the CS an equal number of times as with the CS
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