AP Psych- Classical Conditioning

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

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 

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

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

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• clapping after a thrilling concert performance
• jumping rope
• running through a maze to get a food reward
• sweating in hot weather

After recovering from a serious motorbike accident, Oliver was afraid to ride a motorbike but not a bicycle. Oliver's pattern of fear best illustrates

• stimulus generalisation 
• secondary reinforcement
• stimulus discrimination
• extinction

While preparing for his daughter's birthday party, Josh keeps bursting balloons as he is blowing them up. By the time he is inflating the sixth balloon, he notices his wife is cringing and looks tense. It would appear that 

• the noise from the bursting balloons as a conditioned stimulus
• Josh's behaviour was an unconditioned stimulus
• the noise from the bursting balloons was an unconditioned stimulus 
• his wife was a nervous wreck