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Question 141

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Psychologist John Garcia conditioned rats to have a taste aversion to sweet-tasting water by injecting them with a drugthat made them ill. Using classical conditioning terminology,what was the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) in this experimental situation?

A) the sweet-tasting water
B) the drug
C) getting ill in response to the drug
D) getting ill in response to the sweet-flavored water

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Question 142

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What was the unconditioned response (UCR) in Watson and Rayner's famous "Little Albert" study?

A) the loud clanging sound
B) the sight of the white rat
C) fear in response to the loud clanging sound
D) fear in response to the sight of the rat

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Question 143

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To enhance the effectiveness of positive reinforcers, you should make sure the reinforcer is reinforcing to the individual whose behavior you want to modify.

According to a study investigating media violence, violent behavior is portrayed in almost two-thirds of all television programs.

Katie loves strong coffee and cheerfully admits that she depends on caffeine to help her wake up every day. One morning, her husband served her two cups of decaffeinated coffee without telling her. Nevertheless, she still felt more alert after drinking the decaffeinated coffee. Katie's alertness after drinking decaffeinated coffee is a(n) :

Fred's dog was classically conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell. Fred then repeatedly paired the bell with another stimulus, a whistle. Now whenever he blows the whistle, his dog salivates, even though the whistle has never been paired with food. This example illustrates:

Who was Edward Thorndike, and what were his contributionsto the study of learning?

The famous Bobo doll study demonstrated that:

The law of effect helps to explain how classically conditioned responses develop from pairing a biologically significant UCSwith a neutral stimulus.

After reviewing decades of research investigating the effects of exposure to media violence, the American Psychological Association and other organizations issued a statem entindicating that media violence is unlikely to contribute to aggressive behavior.

A good method to reduce a problem behavior is to reinforce an alternative behavior that is both constructive and incompatible with the problem behavior.

Which of the following represents a valid criticism of the methodology of Watson and Rayner's "Little Albert" study?

After repeatedly pairing the sound of a bell with food being placed in a dog's mouth, the sound of the bell alone will makethe dog salivate. At this point, the sound of the bell is a(n) :

Initially, an infant has no response to a nurse's white uniform.But after a couple of painful experiences of getting a vaccination shot from a nurse in a white uniform, the infant will react with fear in response to a nurse in a white uniform who simply walks into the examining room. In this example,the sight of a nurse in a white uniform has become a(n) _____to the infant.

After a dog had been conditioned to salivate at the sight ofmeat powder, the meat powder was presented to the dog every three minutes and held just out of the dog's reach. Over the course of several trials, the amount of saliva secreted by the dog decreased to zero, indicating that _____ had occurred.

Exposure to uncontrollable aversive events from which you cannot escape can produce passive behavior, called learned helplessness.

The startle reflex will occur in response to a sudden or unexpected noise. Using Pavlov's terms, the sudden noise would be termed the conditioned stimulus, and the start lereflex would be termed the conditioned response.

After two weeks of being screamed at by his drill sergeant at boot camp and shuddering with fear in response, a Marinerecruit named Joe now shudders every time he hears the footsteps of his drill sergeant coming down the hall. When thedrill sergeant enters the room, Joe snaps to attention and salutes. In this example, shuddering to the sound of the footsteps is _____ and saluting is _____.

One year after a dramatic series that promoted literacy amongadults was broadcast on television in Mexico, enrollment inliteracy instruction groups:

What is the most valid conclusion to be drawn about the different models of conditioning and learning?