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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