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AP Psych DMA

• What are mirror neurons?
• Describe the results of Watson Rayners study
  of Little Albert.
• Dont forget to write down the question to
  leave room for your answers.

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Todays Agenda

• DMA
• Review for Chap 8 Test
• speed dating
• Homework
• Chap. 8 notes due Thursday, Oct. 27th
• Chap. 8 test Thursday, Oct. 27th
• Self Experiment due Monday, Nov. 28th

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What is speed dating?
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Everyone needs to grab a textbook
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Speed Dating Review

• Create 2 circles with the desks
• One inside the other
• Equal of desks in each circle
• Desks need to face each other
• Set your textbook on your
• desk have a seat

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Speed Dating Review

• You are on a date with the person you are
  sitting across from.
• On your date you will
• Introduce yourself answer a silly dating
  question.
• Discuss/answer the questions on the smartboard.
• Even if you know the answer LOOK UP the
  information in the textbook go over it.
• When Wheeler says move everyone in the middle
  circle will get up and move one desk to the right.

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• What do you look for in a boyfriend/girlfriend?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• B. F. Skinner's critics have claimed that he
  neglected the importance of the individual's
• personal freedom.
• early childhood experiences.
• pleasure-seeking tendencies.
• cultural background.
• Page 332

• John B. Watson considered himself to be a(n)
• physiological psychologist.
• cognitive psychologist.
• behaviorist.
• psychoanalyst.
• operant conditioner.
• Page 312

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• What is your favorite type of restaurant?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• Purchasing state lottery tickets is reinforced
  with monetary winnings on a ________ schedule.
• fixed-interval
• variable-interval
• fixed-ratio
• variable-ratio
• Page327

• The desire to perform a behavior due to promised
  rewards or threats of punishment involves
• latent learning.
• extrinsic motivation.
• partial reinforcement.
• delayed reinforcers.
• Page 330

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• How many children do you want to have?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• In Pavlov's experiments, the dog's salivation
  triggered by the taste of food was a(n)
• conditioned response.
• unconditioned response.
• unconditioned stimulus.
• conditioned stimulus.
• Page 313

• By learning to associate a squirt of water with
  an electric shock, sea snails demonstrate the
  process of
• habituation.
• spontaneous recovery.
• classical conditioning.
• observational learning.
• operant conditioning.
• Page309, 311

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• What is your family like?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• Last year, Dr. Moritano cleaned Natacha's skin
  with rubbing alcohol prior to administering each
  of a series of painful rabies vaccination shots.
  Which of the following processes accounts for the
  fact that Natacha currently becomes fearful every
  time she smells rubbing alcohol?
• observational learning
• classical conditioning
• the overjustification effect
• operant conditioning
• latent learning
• Page 312

• When people pressed their arms upward rather than
  downward while observing unfamiliar Chinese
  symbols, they subsequently rated these stimuli
  more positively. This best illustrates the impact
  of
• the overjustification effect.
• associative learning.
• latent learning.
• generalization.
• shaping.
• Page 310

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• What are some of your goals?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• Makayla developed an intense fear of flying five
  years ago when she was in a plane crash. The fact
  that today she can again fly without distress
  indicates that her fear has undergone
• spontaneous recovery.
• extinction.
• generalization.
• discrimination.
• Page 316

• A child's fear at the sight of a hypodermic
  needle is a(n)
• conditioned response.
• unconditioned stimulus.
• conditioned stimulus.
• unconditioned response.
• Page 314

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• Nikki has learned to expect the sound of thunder
  whenever she sees a flash of lightning. This
  suggests that associative learning involves
• the overjustification effect.
• cognitive processes.
• spontaneous recovery.
• continuous reinforcement.
• shaping.
• Page 317

• Toddlers taught to fear speeding cars may also
  begin to fear speeding trucks and motorcycles.
  This best illustrates
• generalization.
• secondary reinforcement.
• shaping.
• latent learning.
• spontaneous recovery.
• Page 316

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• Do you like to dance?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• After he was spanked on several occasions by his
  mother for spilling his milk, Colin developed a
  strong fear of his mother. In this case, spanking
  is a(n) ________ for Colin's fear
• negative reinforcer
• conditioned stimulus
• secondary reinforcer
• unconditioned stimulus
• Page 320-321

• Garcia and Koelling's studies of taste aversion
  in rats demonstrated that classical conditioning
  is constrained by
• cognitive processes.
• biological predispositions.
• environmental factors.
• continuous reinforcement.
• latent learning.
• Page 318

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• What is your favorite movie?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• B. F. Skinner's work elaborated what E. L.
  Thorndike had called
• shaping.
• behaviorism.
• observational learning.
• the law of effect.
• latent learning.
• Page 323

• Laurie's thumbsucking has become habitual because
  she begins to feel less anxious whenever she
  sucks her thumb. This best illustrates the
  process of
• generalization.
• extinction.
• classical conditioning.
• latent learning.
• operant conditioning.
• Page 323

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• Describe your dream vacation.

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• Which of the following is the best example of a
  conditioned reinforcer?
• applause for an excellent piano recital
• a spanking for eating cookies before dinner
• a cold root beer for mowing the lawn on a hot day
• termination of shock after removing one's finger
  from a live electric wire
• Page 325

• An animal trainer is teaching a miniature poodle
  to balance on a ball. Initially, he gives the
  poodle a treat for approaching the ball, then
  only for placing its front paws on the ball, and
  finally only for climbing on the ball. The
  trainer is using the method of
• successive approximations.
• delayed reinforcement.
• latent learning.
• classical conditioning.
• secondary reinforcement.
• Page 324

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• Do you prefer sunsets or sunrises?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• Asking women for dates is most likely to be
  reinforced on a ________ schedule.
• fixed-interval
• fixed-ratio
• variable-interval
• variable-ratio
• Page 327

• A response is learned most rapidly and is most
  resistant to extinction if it is acquired under
  conditions of ________ reinforcement followed by
  ________ reinforcement.
• continuous partial
• primary secondary
• partial continuous
• secondary primary
• Page 326

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• Do you like long walks on the beach?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• Operant response rates remain highest when
  individuals anticipate that their behavior will
  actually lead to further reinforcement. This best
  illustrates the importance of ________ in operant
  conditioning.
• secondary reinforcers
• cognitive processes
• biological predispositions
• the overjustification effect
• spontaneous recovery
• Page 329

• The use of physical punishment may
• lead to the suppression but not the forgetting of
  undesirable behavior.
• demonstrate that aggression is a way of coping
  with problems.
• lead people to fear and avoid the punishing
  agent.
• do all of the above.
• Page 328-329

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Everyone in the inner circle move to the right

• New date

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Introduce yourself to your date answer this
question

• What is your favorite color?

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Discuss/answer these questionsLook-up the info
in the textbook

• Children are especially likely to behave
  aggressively after viewing TV violence in which
  an attractive person commits ________ violence
  that causes ________ visible pain or harm.
• justified no
• unjustified no
• justified a lot of
• unjustified a lot of
• Page 338

• According to B. F. Skinner, human behavior is
  controlled primarily by
• biological predispositions.
• external influences.
• emotions.
• unconscious motives.
• conscious intentions.
• Page 332