Exam 3: Pavlovian Procedures

In ____________ conditioning, the CS and US occur at the same time.

If, following conditioning, a CS is repeatedly presented without the US, the procedure is called ________.

In studying "psychic secretions," Pavlov focused his attention on the ________.

__________ stimuli are typically events that are important to survival.

If a CS is presented several times alone, and is then repeatedly paired with a US, conditioning proceeds more rapidly than if the CS had never been presented alone.

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

A _________ stimulus is one that consists of two or more stimuli presented simultaneously.

In Pavlovian conditioning, ISI refers to ______.

One way to test for the effects of conditioning is to use test trials.

Pavlov became interested in psychic reflexes around ________.

The Rescorla-Wagner model has been very influential, but it does not explain tent inhibition. Completion

According to the Rescorla-Wagner model, blocking occurs because when the second (blocked) CS is presented, most of the learning that can occur has already been "used up" by the first CS.

Pavlov was a ________.

________ said that Pavlov was one of the greatest geniuses of all time.

The author of your text uses the terms unconditional reflex and conditional reflex, but he notes that most authors use the terms _______ and _______ reflexes.

Pavlov said that the salivary glands behaved as though they had ________.

Explain why Pavlov became interested in psychic reflexes.

Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for his research on conditioning.

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

George Bernard Shaw said that Pavlov was __________.