AP PSYCHOLOGY

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CLASSICAL CONDITIONING VS OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A passenger on an airplane was feeling very anxious about an important job interview the next morning, and as a result he was uneasy and nervous the entire flight. Back home a week later, he is contemplating a holiday trip. Th ough he hadn’t previously been afraid to fl y, he fi nds himself suddenly nervous about fl ying and decides to cancel his plans to visit an out-of-state relative. What are the UCS, UCR, CS, and CR, respectively?
A
Job interview, feeling nervous and anxious, flying, feeling nervous and anxious about flying
B
Feeling nervous and anxious, flying, out-of-state relative, feeling anxious and nervous about flying
C
Flying, feeling nervous and anxious, job interview, feeling nervous and anxious
D
Feeling nervous and anxious, job interview, flying, feeling nervous and anxious
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of Stimulus Discrimination In one well-known experiment on classical conditioning, researchers paired the taste of meat (unconditioned stimulus) with the sight of a circle (conditioned stimulus), and dogs learned to salivate in response to the presentation of a circle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. An unconditioned response is a response that is reflexive and involuntary in nature, which is reliably induced every time an organism comes across to biologically significant stimuli.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main difference between classical and operant conditioning is that classical conditioning associates involuntary behavior with a stimulus while operant conditioning associates voluntary action with a consequence.

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