Exam 4: Pavlovian Applications

Garcia's interest in the role of learning in taste aversions may have begun when he became sick after eating ____________.

The studies of Carolyn and Arthur Staats demonstrating that neutral words paired with pleasant words become pleasant are examples of__________.

Barry Maletzky treated exhibitionists by having them imagine that they were about to perform the inappropriate behavior, and then _______.

Peter's fear, like Albert's, was the result of conditioning by a researcher.

VRET stands for _________.

Exposure therapy is really a form of counterconditioning.

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

How do the experiments of Carolyn and Arthur Staats help us understand prejudice?

Pavlovian conditioning suggests that stimuli associated with chemotherapy (such as the clinic where the patient is treated) might suppress the patient's _______ system.

Garcia's first experiment on taste aversion was unusual in that the ________.

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

Thomas Parish and colleagues reduced the bias of white American children toward the Vietnamese by pairing images of Vietnamese with________.

If an aversive stimulus, such as a noxious odor, regularly precedes a pleasant stimulus, such as a tasty meal, the former stimulus may lose much of its unpleasant quality.

Senatorial candidate Smith's popularity increased dramatically after he was seen on television shaking hands with a very popular public figure. This is probably an example of__________.

Elnora Stuart and colleagues paired slides of pleasant scenes with__________.