Exam 4: Pavlovian Applications

Shepard Siegel's work suggests that some deaths attributed to _____________ are actually the result of conditioning.

The CS in the Little Albert experiment was a __________.

The CS and US in the Garcia et al. experiment were__________.

Describe how you might have cured Little Albert's phobia.

In treating Peter's fear of rabbits, Jones used a procedure called__________.

Arne Ohman and his colleagues used conditioning to establish a fear of ______ in college students.

Diana Woodruff-Pak found that people who condition slowly are more likely to develop ___________.

Prejudice is an example of a CER, or __________.

Pavlov found that when he paired painful stimuli with food, the dog came to show no distress at the painful stimuli. This experiment may help explain __________ behavior in humans.

The research that is most helpful in understanding racial prejudice is probably that of __________.

The phenomenon of __________ suggests that we should be more likely to develop aversions to novel foods than to familiar ones.

People are most likely to tolerate painful and humiliating events if these events consistently __________.

If a person sneezes after coming close to a realistic-looking artificial flower, you can be pretty sure that he or she is__________.

Barbara Rothbaum and colleagues used virtual reality exposure therapy to treat a fear of __________.

The CS and US in the Little Albert experiment were a __________, respectively.

Pavlovian conditioning is an adaptive mechanism but can nevertheless result in the acquisition of maladaptive behavior.

The first person to use counterconditioning to treat a phobia was probably__________.

In ______ therapy, a stimulus that elicits an inappropriate response is paired with a negative stimulus such as shock or an emetic drug.

Morgan Doran and his colleagues found that after taste aversion training, ___________ would remove weeds from a vineyard without damaging the grape plants.

Political campaign ads attempt to use conditioning by pairing their candidate with stimuli that evoke positive emotions and by pairing the opponent candidate with stimuli that evoke negative emotions. Completion