Psych 110 - Week 2 & 3 Practice Questions

Higher-order conditioning can support which of the following? - Anxiety - Biological fitness - Different conditional responses than first-order conditioning - All of the above - None of the above

All of the above***

All forms of pavlovian learning require an unconditioned stimulus (US). - True - False

False

Conditioned suppression is when an aversive conditioned stimulus dishabituates instrumental behavior for food. - True - False

False reason: conditioned to suppress UR due to CS

Which of the following contribute to feelings of safety? - Inhibitory Pavlovian learning - Excitatory Pavlovian learning - Aversive Pavlovian learning - All of the above - None of the above

Inhibitory Pavlovian learning

Which of the following is true of sign-tracking? - Rats are more likely to sign-track than pigeons - It is an appetitive CR - It always facilitates access to the US - All of the above - None of the above

It is an appetitive CR

Rihanna trains a group of rats that a 5-s tone predicts a foot shock, and that the same tone paired with a light predicts nothing. She then puts the rats in a neutral context to examine their response to the light alone. Which of the following is she most likely to find in response to the light relative to baseline? - Decreased freezing - Increased lever pressing for food - Increased approach to the light - Decreased eyeblink - All of the above - None of the above

None of the above ***

Every evening, Dr. Trott feeds his cats their dry-food by taking the bag of food out of a container on top of the fridge, filling their bowls, and placing the bowls in their separate eating areas. One day, Pumpkin was discovered on the fridge, chewing on the container which holds the bag of food. This is an example of which of the following? Choose the best answer. - Goal-tracking - Sign-tracking - Conditioned taste preference - Conditional fear - Sensitization - None of the above

Sign-tracking

Which of the following is true of the CS-US interval? - Simultaneous CS-US intervals produce optimal learning - CS-US intervals that are long relative to the ITI produce optimal learning - The CS-US interval does not influence learning - The ideal CS-US interval depends on the specific CS and US used

The ideal CS-US interval depends on the specific CS and US used

Dua Lipa wants to run a proper summation test for conditioned inhibition. She comes to you for advice, which of the following do you tell her? - Train rats that a tone predicts footshock, a click predicts footshock, and light + tone predicts nothing and then ask if the light attenuates freezing responses to the tone - Train rats that a tone predicts food and light + tone predicts shock and then ask if the light attenuates approach responses to the tone - Train rats that a tone predicts footshock, a click predicts footshock, and light + tone predicts nothing and then ask if the light attenuates freezing responses to the click - Train rats that a tone predicts footshock and a light predicts nothing and then ask if the light attenuates freezing responses to the tone - All of the above - None of the above

Train rats that a tone predicts footshock, a click predicts footshock, and light + tone predicts nothing and then ask if the light attenuates freezing responses to the click

When might an experimenter see sign-tracking behaviors instead of goal-tracking behaviors? - When the CS is an auditory stimulus - When the CS is a visual stimulus - When the CR is related to appetitive behaviors - When the CS and US occur in close proximity to one another

When the CS is a visual stimulus - has smth to track

Which alternative explanation for conditioned inhibition does the retardation of acquisition test rule out? - Common learning process - Distraction/Too much attention - Inhibitory learning - Habituated attention - All of the above - None of the above

Distraction/Too much attention - summation test does not rule out distraction while this test does as it may be due to habituated attention instead

Relative to a neutral context, a context previously associated with morphine use is most likely to do which of the following? - Cause a lower threshold for pain (more pain) - Cause a higher threshold for pain (lesspain) - No effect on pain threshold

Cause a lower threshold for pain (more pain) reason: tries to balance the higher threshold of pain that the morphine will cause by lowering the threshold before hand

Which CS-US interval will produce the most effective Pavlovian conditioning? - 0 seconds - 1 second - 1 minute - 1 hour - Cannot determine from the given information

Cannot determine from the given information reason: different for different CS-US

Every evening after arriving home, Dr. Trott feeds his cats their dry-food by grabbing the bag of food off of the fridge, filling their bowls, and placing the bowl in their separate eating areas. One day, when Dr. Trott came home, Bela was found waiting at her eating area. This is an example of which of the following? Choose the best answer. - Goal-tracking - Sign-tracking - Conditioned taste preference - Conditional fear - Sensitization - None of the above

Goal-tracking reason: tracking the location of the US