Exam 9: Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning would be best suited to answer which of the following questions?

For a conditioned emotional response to be acquired,particularly one involving fear,a person would need:

Using your knowledge of classical conditioning,explain how a rancher might condition coyotes from attacking and eating sheep.

An organism learns a relationship between two stimuli,such that the occurrence of one stimulus predicts the occurrence of another.This explanation is characteristic of:

When a CR reappears after extinction has taken place,spontaneous recovery occurs.

The best example of an unconditioned response is:

Blue jays develop ____ that keep them from eating monarch butterflies.

If Pavlov's dogs only salivated to a middle-pitch bell,but not to a high-pitch bell,then this suggests ____ has taken place.

The example of Michelle becoming nauseous when she smelled dish-washing soap can be best explained by a type of learning called:

In classical conditioning,the NS is paired with the UCS.

A researcher presents an unconditioned stimulus first,which is followed by the neutral stimulus.The researcher is practicing:

You missed class the day classical conditioning was discussed,so you borrow your friend's notes.As you are reading the notes you see that the neutral stimulus was the bell,the UCS was food,and the UCR was salivation.As you look further in the notes,you cannot read what is written about the CS,since your friend was running out of ink as she took notes.Given what you can read,you reason that the CS is:

Thelma has a classically conditioned fear of needles.If her brain was scanned,we would find increased activation in the:

What does the subject learn in classical conditioning?

The first time Mindy placed a piece of meat in her pet poodle's mouth,the poodle salivated.The poodle's salivation is a(n):

In classical conditioning,when an organism responds to some stimuli,but not to others,the organism is demonstrating:

Marie bakes a special muffin for Jack's birthday.Jack eats it and gets sick.A year later,Jack still will not eat Marie's muffins.Jack's behavior is an example of a(n):

Of the following words,which one is most descriptive of the contiguity theory of classical conditioning?

In Little Albert's case,the rat was the NS.

Presenting the examples of an aftershave causing anxiety,fear of needles,and the smell of dish soap causing nausea illustrates: