Classical Conditioning Part I CFU

When John turns on the light to his aquarium the fish swim to the top even before he sprinkles the food.  What used to be a neutral stimulus for the fish?

• the food
• the water
• the light
• John

A bell rings, then a puff of air into the eye causes a reflexive blink.  After this happens on several occasion, the bell ringing alone causes a conditioned reflexive blink.  The UCS is _________________ and the CS is _____________________.

• Puff of air; blinking
• Bell; blinking
• Puff of air; bell
• Bell; puff of air 

Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a bell, the bell was a(n)

• unconditioned stimulus
• neutral stimulus 
• conditioned stimulus
• unconditioned response

Tamara normally feeds her cat canned cat food. She noticed that every time she uses her electric can opener, her cat comes to the kitchen. What is the conditioned stimulus?

• The cat food
• The sound of the electric can opener
• The cat coming to the kitchen
• Tamara

In horror movies, scary music is played with a violent scene. What is the  the Unconditioned stimulus

• Scary music
• Being scared 
• Violent scene
• Horror movies

A group of ranchers attempts to discourage coyotes from attacking their sheep by placing a substance on the wool of the sheep that makes coyotes violently ill if they eat it. Very quickly, the coyotes avoid the sheep entirely. In this scenario, what are the UCS, CS, and CR, respectively?

•  The substance, the sheep’s wool, aversion to the sheep
• The sheep’s wool, the substance, aversion to sheep
• Aversion to sheep, the substance, the sheep’s wool

Six weeks ago Jacob ate a chicken sandwich that was contaminated with bacteria.  It gave him food poisoning and he was very ill for several days afterwards. Yesterday, someone offered Jacob a chicken sandwich at a party, and when he saw it he felt ill again. The illness that Jacob felt yesterday was

• An unconditioned response
• A conditioned response
• A conditioned stimulus
• An unconditioned stimulus 

The light switch in Eloise’s bedroom is faulty so that every time she touches the switch she receives an electric shock.  After this has happened a few times, Eloise associates the light switches with a startle response. In this scenario, the unconditioned stimulus is

• the light switch
• Eloise's bedroom
• The electric current
• The startle response

When Elijah was a child, he spent many happy weekends with his grandmother and they had lots of fun baking scones together. Now whenever Elijah smells freshly baking scones he feels happy. The happiness he felt from spending time baking with his grandmother is...

• An unconditioned stimulus 
• An unconditioned response
• A conditioned stimulus 
• A conditioned response

In Pavlov’s experiment on salivation in dogs, the neutral stimulus was ____________ and the conditioned stimulus was ______________.

• the bell; the bell
• the bell; salivation
• the meat powder; the bell
• the meat powder; salivation