Assignment: Read these two examples of classical conditioning and answer the following 15 questions:
EXAMPLE 1
As a child, Monique learns that when she hears a fire alarm, there is a fire somewhere in the building and that she should leave. In other words, she has learned to pair or associate the sound of the fire alarm with a fire.
1) What is the unconditioned stimulus?
2) What is the unconditioned response?
3) What is the neurtral stimulus?
4) What is the conditioned stimulus?
5) What is the conditioned response?
As an adult, Monique moves into a new apartment building. The first night she is living there, the fire alarm goes off in her building, so she runs out into the parking lot, only to find out that it was a false alarm. In fact, false alarms are common in the building, and eventually, Monique stops leaving her apartment when the alarm goes off.
6) Monique eventually stopping leaving her apartment when she hears the alarm is an example of what?
Monique then goes on a monthlong vacation in Hawaii. The first night she returns, the fire alarm goes off in her building in the middle of the night, and Monique runs out into the parking lot.
7) Monique leaving her building when she hears the alarm a month later is an example of what?
EXAMPLE 2
Bill visited a restaurant in the beginning of November and ordered the chicken. Afterwards,
he got food poisoning and became extremely sick and nauseated. Ever since then, he has been unable to taste chicken without becoming nauseated.
8) The food poisoning is the ________.
9) The nausea causes by the food poisoning is the ________.
10) The taste of chicken BEFORE Bill got food poisoning is the ________.
11) The taste of chicken AFTER Bill associated the taste with food poisoning is the ________.
12) The nausea caused by the taste of the chicken is the ________.
Bill went home for Thanksgiving and his mother served a turkey. He was quite surprised to find that he felt nauseated when he tasted the turkey as well. However, he didn’t feel nauseated at the taste of Peking duck when he went to a Chinese restaurant later that weekend.
13) Bill’s nausea caused by the taste of the turkey is an example of what classical conditioning phenomenon?
14) Bill’s lack of nausea at the taste of Peking duck is an example of what classical conditional phenomenon?
15) Bill’s response to the taste of chicken is an example of what contemporary classical conditioning phenomenon associated with John Garcia?
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