You Decide That You Are Going to Condition Your Dog

Multiple Choice

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

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