You Decide That You Are Going to Condition Your Dog

Multiple Choice

You decide that you are going to condition your dog, Neville, to salivate to the sound of a metronome. You give Neville a biscuit, and then a second later you sound the metronome. You do this several times, but no conditioning seems to occur. This is probably because __________.

A) the metronome was not a distinctive sound
B) the metronome should have been sounded before Neville ate the biscuit
C) you should have had a longer interval between the metronome and the biscuit
D) Pavlov found that the CS and UCS must be only seconds apart in order to condition salivation