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6. The sound of a bell, announcing food, makes the dog salivate because it is a...
- Conditioned stimulus
- Unconditioned response
- Unconditioned stimulus
- Conditioned response
7. What is the function of the conditioned stimulus?
- To prepare us for the conditioned response
- To prepare us for the unconditioned stimulus
- To cause the conditioned response
- To cause the unconditioned stimulus
8. When are the rats most likely to be conditioned to associate the bell with electric shocks?
- When they are shocked the same amount of times with or without the bell sounding
- When they always hear the bell and are sometimes randomly shocked
- When they are more likely to be shocked while the bell sounds
- When they are only shocked while the bell sounds
9. Which of these is a case of habituation?
- A dog stops noticing the mailman because he comes every day
- A dog stops barking at the mailman because he comes every day
- A dog barks at the mailman because he comes every day
- A dog gradually becomes afraid of the mailman because he comes every day
10. Classical conditioning can explain the occurrence of what?
- Extinction
- Phobias
- Habituation
- Responses
11. When does generalisation occur?
- When we are presented with a stimulus we expect to cause a conditioned response
- When we are presented with a stimulus similar to the conditioned stimulus
- When we are presented with a stimulus we mistake for the conditioned stimulus
- When we are presented with a stimulus different to the conditioned stimulus
12. Extinction happens when...
- We are repeatedly exposed to the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus
- When the conditioned response spontaneously wears off
- We forget the connection between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus
- We are repeatedly exposed to the conditioned stimulus without the conditioned response
13. When information occurs at the same time as a conditioned stimulus, what happens to it?
- They become second-order conditioning
- They are not processed
- They are blocked
- They become conditioned stimulus as well