Exam 3: The Nuts and Bolts of Classical Conditioning

Why is the bidirectional response test the ideal test for demonstrating conditioned inhibition?

The suppression ratio used in conditioned suppression preparations involves a comparison between the rate of responding during the _______ and the total rate of responding _______.

Refer to the scenario below to answer the questions that follow. While you are stopped at a traffic light and listening to a new song on the radio, you are rear-ended by the driver behind you. You suffer mild whiplash and minor bruising, and you are terribly frightened by the accident. Weeks later, you still get anxious whenever you hear the song that was on the radio at the time of the accident. -From a classical conditioning perspective, the car that hit you would be the

An animal trainer teaching a dog a trick that requires it to disobey a specific verbal command (inhibit the tendency to respond) first teaches the dog to obey the command. Then he teaches the dog to disobey the command when he cocks his head to the right. The trainer is applying _______ inhibition.

Which statement about classical conditioning preparations is true?

How can an extinguished CS have inhibition if it does not pass a summation test?

In a positive contingency the CS predicts _______, whereas in a negative contingency the CS predicts _______.

Preexposing a CS _______ to the CS.

CS-only and US-only control groups are often run as part of a classical conditioning experiment to demonstrate

You want to study the effects of distractors on conditioned responding, and you want to establish a conditioned response as quickly as possible. What features must be part of the study in order to make the conditioning occur as rapidly as possible?

In the summation test for conditioned inhibition, the researcher pairs a presumed conditioned inhibitor with _______ and then measures the amount of _______.

A negative contingency is a situation in which

The unconditional stimulus is typically

In most conditioning studies,

Describe two ways in which a stimulus can come to elicit fear without ever being paired with a fear-inducing US.

What is the CS "preexposure effect," and why should that term be preferred over the term "latent inhibition"?

Preexposure of a CS or US typically

In the standard eyeblink conditioning preparation in rabbits, the eyeblink is the

A researcher has divided his research subjects into two groups. For one group, the CS is 10 seconds long and signals a brief US at the end of the procedure. The time between trials is 30 seconds. In another group, the CS is 2 seconds long with a brief US at its end, and the time between trials is 6 seconds. You expect the

Which of the following features of standard eyeblink conditioning in rabbits does not contribute to the general appeal of this conditioning preparation to researchers?