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- Q1Extinction occurs when a ________ is no longer paired with a ________.UR;USCS; USUS; URCS; UR30s
- Q2After he was spanked on several occasions for spilling his milk at a restaurant, Colin began to experience a fear of the restaurant. In this case, spanking was a(n) ________ for Colin's fear.secondary stimulusgeneralized responseconditioned stimulusunconditioned stimulus30s
- Q3A person adhering to the cognitive perspective would be likely to emphasize that classical conditioning depends on:the amount of time between the presentation of the CS and the US.how strict of a punishment that is received.an organism's expectation that a US will follow a CS.how frequently an organism is exposed to an association of a CS and a US.30s
- Q4John Garcia showed that when rats ingested a novel substance before becoming nauseated from radiation or drugs, they acquired aconditioned taste preference for the substanceconditioned taste aversion for the substanceconditioned taste aversion for any novel substanceconditioned taste preference for any novel substance30s
- Q5In Pavlov's experiments, the dog's salivation triggered by the sound of the tone was a(n):unconditioned response.conditioned response.conditioned stimulus.unconditioned stimulus.30s
- Q6A response is learned most rapidly and is most resistant to extinction if it is acquired under conditions of:secondary reinforcement followed by primary reinforcement.the influence of a mind-altering substance.continuous reinforcement followed by partial reinforcement.partial reinforcement followed by continuous reinforcement.30s
- Q7Receiving delicious food is to escaping electric shock as ________ is to ________.positive reinforcer; negative reinforcerreinforcement; punishmentpunishment; reinforcementprimary reinforcer; secondary reinforcer30s
- Q8You would be most likely to use operant conditioning to teach a dog to:drool when it smells food.dislike the taste of dead birds.retrieve sticks and balls.fear cars in the street.30s
- Q9Operant conditioning and classical conditioning differ in several ways. For example, in classical conditioning, extinction is the diminishing of a CR when a UCS does not follow a CS; in operant conditioning, extinction means:a response that is no longer reinforced occurs only once in a while.reinforcement is intermittent and so responding is less frequent.when punishment no longer occurs.a response that is no longer reinforced is eliminated.30s
- Q10The use of physical punishment may:Lead to the suppression but not the forgetting of undesirable behaviorlead people to fear and avoid the punishing agentDo all of thesedemonstrate that aggression is a way of coping with problems30s