AP Psychology Module 26

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 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

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