Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning

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Researchers have found that classical conditioning can be used to produce an immune response in patients. Of the following pairings, which would be the most likely to produce this response

lemonade with the immune enhancing drug

Operant conditioning child

Operant conditioning is a type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences. example, of how Operant Conditioning can be applied to my everyday life is when I had to toilet train my 2 year old​.

What happened after "Little Albert" was classically conditioned to fear a tame, white rat?

Stimulus generalization occurred; Albert responded with fear to other furry animals and fuzzy objects.

Every time Martin opens the cabinet where he stores his dog's treats his dog begins to bark in anticipation. This is an example of:

associative learning

Five-year-old Destiny is frightened by the noise thunder makes. Destiny associates lightning with thunder because lightning regularly precedes thunder. Thus, when Destiny sees lightning, she often cries in anticipation that she will hear thunder soon afterward. This is an example of:

classical conditioning

John has been a coffee drinker since he started college three years ago. He finds that anytime he smells coffee when he enters a nearby Starbucks he starts to feel more alert and awake even before he takes his first sip of coffee. This is an example of:

classical conditioning

You feel fine at the picnic until a spider very similar to the one that bit you last year and made you sick starts to walk onto your picnic blanket. You begin to become anxious and fearful. This reaction is most likely a(n)

conditioned response

Four year old Tommy developed a fear of going down steps after falling down the steps in his house several times. When he was at his grandmother's house he demonstrated no fear of climbing the steps to her front door. Unlike Little Albert's fear of white rats and other white items, Tommy was demonstrating

discrimination.

Pavlov's dog stopped salivating to the bell when the food was no longer paired with the bell. This is _____.

extinction.

Pavlov's dog stopped salivating to the bell when the food was no longer paired with the bell. This is:

extinction.

In Watson and Rayner's experiment with Little Albert the _____ was the unconditioned response (UR).

fear of a loud noise

John just started his vacation from work and scheduled a tee time with friends to play golf Monday morning. On Monday morning he started driving his car to work instead of the golf course. Driving his car to work instead of the golf course is an example of _____ behavior.

habitual

observational learning child

is learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others.

Both Watson and Pavlov believed that psychology should study only _____ and observable psychological phenomena.

objective

If Jamal wanted to train his dog to sit and lay down when he commanded the behavior, which of the following types of conditioning should he utilize to train his dog?

operant conditioning

People and animals learn about the consequences of behavior through:

operant conditioning

Macy gave her dog a treat each time she came to Macy when she called her by name. Soon the dog came every time Macy called the dog by name. This is an example of_____conditioning.

operant conditioning.

Jane had leukemia as a child and had to undergo numerous bouts of chemotherapy. She had associated the waiting room with nausea. Now 35 years old, she had to take her mother to the same hospital for breast cancer treatment. She became nauseous while in the waiting room with her mother. Her nausea best illustrates:

spontaneous recovery


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