Exam 4: Pavlovian Applications

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.

Blue jays usually do not eat Monarch butterflies.This is an example of a/an .

The term used to refer to sexual behavior disapproved of by society is .

Pavlovian conditioning accounts for negative emotions, but not for positive ones.

The Watson and Rayner experiment with Little Albert involved the procedure known as .

Blue jays acquire a taste aversion for .

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.

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

Pedophilia is sometimes treated with a form of counterconditioning called .

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

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

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

The use of euphemisms is best explained by the work of .

Exposure therapy is really a form of counterconditioning.

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

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

Elnora Stuart and colleagues paired slides of pleasant scenes with .

John Watson is often said to have ignored emotions, but in fact he was among the first to study them experimentally.

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 .

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