Answer any 12 questions THOROUGHLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY!!!! Provide examples for each response when appropriate. Your answers need to reflect information and key terms from the textbook. This exam is DUE BY NOON ON FRIDAY. Compose your responses in Word document and submit your exam here.

 

Chapter 2

 

1. Discuss the various ways of measuring learning.

 

2. Explain how a cumulative recorder works?

 

3. Explain the difference between within-subject and between-subjects experiments.

 

4. Explain why a random assignment of subjects is unnecessary in ABA experiments.

 

5. Discuss the ethics of using animals for research on learning.

 

Chapter 3

 

6. Explain the differences among trace, delay, simultaneous, and backward procedures.

 

7. Explain why Pavlovian conditioning is not really a simple form of learning.

 

8. How has the study of Pavlovian conditioning altered your view of human nature?

 

9. Explain how extinction of CR can be viewed as the acquisition of a behavior?

 

Chapter 4

 

10. Describe how a person might learn to be an embarrassed by the word strawberry.

 

11. Summarize Garcia/s work on taste aversion. Explain how his work differed from most studies of Pavlovian conditioning.

 

12. Describe the work of Watson and Rayner with little Albert.

 

13. How might you use Pavlovian conditioning be use a boost the body’s immune system in response to a CS?

 

14. Describe how you might have cured Little Albert’s phobia?

 

15. How do the experiments of Carolyn and Aurthur Staats help us understand prejudice?

 

16. What are the practical implications of Siegel’s work for people who use narcotic drugs?

 

 

 

CHAPTER 5-7

 

Answer all questions THOROUGHLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY!!!! Provide examples for each response when appropriate. This is an open book exam and your answers need to reflect information and key terms from the textbook. This exam is DUE BY NOON ON FRIDAY. Compose your responses in Word document and submit your exam here.

 

Chapter 5

 

1. What are the differences between classical conditioning and operant conditioning?

 

2. What is the chief problem with the two-process theory of avoidance?

 

3. How does the Sidman avoidance procedure differ from other avoidance procedures?

 

4. Describe how you would use shaping to train a pigeon to hop on one foot.

 

5. Compare Premack’s relative value theory with the response deprivation theory of Timberlake and Allison.

 

6. Your textbook describes various tips for shaping effectively. Describe in these tips and provide a specific example of how you can use these tips for shaping in your daily life.

 

Ch 6

 

7. Your text describes various tips for shaping effectively. Describe as many of these tips as you can.

 

8. Describe the basic laboratory procedure for establishing superstitious behavior. Explain why it is usually difficult to specify in advance what superstitious behavior will result.

 

9. Why is insight not an adequate explanation of problem solving?

 

Chapter 7

 

10. Explain why fatigue is not a good explanation for postreinforcement pauses.

 

11. That teacher has a student, who gives up at the first sign of difficulty. How can the teacher increase the child’s persistence?

 

12. How might you use what you know about reinforcement schedules to study the effects of air temperature on behavior?

 

13. Why is the study of reinforcement schedules important?

 

 

 

CHAPTER 8-10

 

Answer all questions THOROUGHLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY!!!! Provide examples for each response when appropriate. This is an open book exam and your answers need to reflect information and key terms from the textbook. This exam is DUE BY NOON ON FRIDAY. Compose your responses in Word document and submit your exam here.

 

Chapter 8

 

1. You have a 10 year old child who mistreats the family dog. Describe two ways of dealing with this problem without using punishment.

 

2. It is common practice to begin punishment with a very weak punisher, and gradually increase the intensity of the punisher until one finds an effective level of intensity. Is this a good idea? Why or why not?

 

3. What is the fundamental difference between the two-process, and one-process theory of punishment?

 

4. Briefly discuss the problems associated with punishment.

 

Chapter 9

 

5. Which is the better way of reducing the frequency of misbehavior in students, time out or differential reinforcement?

 

6. Researchers have demonstrated that the rate of work-related accidents can be reduced by reinforcing safe practices with bonuses and time off, but why are such efforts necessary? In other words, why do workers not follow safe practices spontaneously since they benefit by avoiding injuries?

 

7. How could you use operant procedures to improve the adoption rate of orphans aged five to twelve?

 

Chapter 10

 

8. Discuss the role of observational learning in criminal behavior.

 

9. Why has observational learning received less attention than other forms of learning?

 

10. Design an experiment to determine the role of delayed reinforcement of a model’s behavior in observational learning.

 

 

CHAPTER 11-13

 

Answer all questions THOROUGHLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY!!!! Provide examples for each response when appropriate. This is an open book exam and your answers need to reflect information and key terms from the textbook. Compose your responses in Word document and submit your exam here.

 

Chapter 11

 

1. How could a speech teacher encourage oratorical skills to generalize outside of the classroom?

 

2, Discuss the DOE and its implications for discrimination training.

 

3. Describe the role that semantic generalization may play in prejudices.

 

Chapter 13

 

4. Suppose learning were passed on from generation to generation, how would your relationship with your parents be different?

 

5. How might preparedness to learn be nonadaptive?

 

6. Does learning inevitably mean progress? Why or why not?

 

7. Identify 20 major learning from this course and how you applied these lessons learned into your life.

 

 

 

Opposition to slavery existed since before the American Revolution and increased as northern states abolished it by 1820.   In the 1830’s the abolitionist movement became more vocal, commencing with the establishment of a newspaper, the Liberator, edited by William Lloyd Garrison.   As support for abolition increased it preoccupied the nation to the point that it ultimately resulted in the Civil War in 1861.   In the 1850’s abolitionists denounced the institution of slavery, while many southern writers and newspapers defended it and compared it favorably to the conditions faced by free white workers in the north.

Read the following documents– all found in the “anti-slavery” file, and then support the following theses listed:

William Lloyd Garrison  “No Compromise with Slavery” 1854

Harriet Beecher Stowe  Excerpt from  Uncle Tom’s Cabin  1852

Defend the following theses, which was argued before the Civil War:

 

1)Slavery in the United States was inhumane and immoral and needed to be ended unconditionally.

 

Consider the following questions:

 

How do the two groups view the treatment of slaves and their contentment?

What moral grounds does each group use to support its views?

What comparisons do the pro-slavery proponents make between the lives of slaves and free white workers in the north?

How do the two groups describe racial attitudes and treatment of blacks in the north as compared to the south?

*     What groups and forces do the two groups believe are responsible for supporting or opposing slavery?

How do the two groups differ in their analysis of the positive or negative impact of slavery on the nation as a whole?

 

Utilize classroom lectures and the textbook to support your thesis; you may also want to consider the following:

 

conditions of slave life during colonial times

the Revolution’s impact on slaves and free blacks and the expectations of African-Americans

the revival and growth of slavery in the early 19th century and its impact on slave families and individual stability

the conditions of slave life and culture in the south, both on the plantations and in southern cities before the Civil War

the causes of and prevalence of slave revolts and resistance

the purpose and nature of  the slave codes

the growth of the underground railroad

working and living conditions in the North during the Industrial Revolution

the growth of the factory system and its impact on both native – born Americans and immigrants

northern attitudes towards blacks

living conditions of free blacks in both the north and the south

 

Note: you need to answer all of the above question after reading the articles in the other file (anti-slavery file)..