A) With animals, researchers can use invasive, aversive, or enduring events as consequences.
B) The experiences and genetics of animals can be controlled.
C) Fundamental, general learning processes occur in a vast array of species.
D) Using animals as research models allows researchers to compare the importance of language in different species.
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A) instrumental response.
B) classical response.
C) classical stimulus cue.
D) biologically significant outcome.
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A) Reflexive
B) Voluntary
C) Consequence controlled
D) Learned
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A) self-reports obtained from acutely introspective individuals.
B) the effects of intervening variables on behavior.
C) directly observable and measurable behaviors.
D) the antecedents and consequences of behaviors.
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A) Stimulus-outcome
B) Stimulus-response
C) Response-outcome
D) An association between a stimulus and a response-outcome association
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A) Their genetic background can be known and controlled.
B) Many of the same basic learning processes occur in a variety of different species.
C) We can study the effects of aversive, invasive, or enduring events on learning processes in animals.
D) Many animal behaviors are species specific, allowing us to study a process uncomplicated by other competing processes.
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A) Animals are more machinelike than humans, because only humans possess a mind that allows for free will and voluntary behavior.
B) All behaviors of human and nonhuman animals are governed by the pursuit of pleasure or the avoidance of pain.
C) All knowledge, and indeed the mind, results from experience with the environment.
D) Humans and animals come into the world with minds that are already prepared or formatted to interpret the environment they are likely to encounter so that they can learn from their experience.
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A) The computer metaphor is appropriate for explaining human learning but not for explaining animal learning.
B) The connectionist approach has replaced learning theory as a parsimonious way to explain both animal and human learning.
C) Animal learning tends to focus more on associations between behavior and emotionally significant events.
D) Human learning is influenced more strongly by evolutionary and genetic factors.
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A) Edward Thorndike
B) John Watson
C) Edward Tolman
D) Ivan Sechenov
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A) voluntary
B) consequence-controlled
C) classically conditioned
D) instrumentally conditioned
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A) only in psychology.
B) in psychology and mathematics.
C) in all sciences.
D) only in Tolman's work.
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A) in our explanation of a behavior.
B) to the extent that it is defined operationally.
C) if it influences another intervening variable.
D) to connect one stimulus to one response.
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