AP PSYCHOLOGY

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LEARNING

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Cenet has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food, the cat comes running to the kitchen. Abby knows that this is classical conditioning and that the unconditioned stimulus is the ____ and the conditioned stimulus is the ____
A
cat food; cupboard door opening
B
cat food; kitchen
C
cupboard door opening; cat food
D
kitchen; cat food
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Classical conditioning is a technique used to teach cats to learn or to become conditioned to a particular sound, smell, or behavior associated with the desired response. For example, the whir of the can opener (associated with food) triggers the cat to come running to the food bowl.

Detailed explanation-2: -A conditioned taste aversion can occur when eating a substance is followed by illness. For example, if you ate sushi for lunch and then became ill, you might avoid eating sushi in the future, even if it had no relationship to your illness.

Detailed explanation-3: -An unconditioned response is an automatic response to a stimulus. The dogs salivating for food is the unconditioned response in Pavlov’s experiment. A conditioned stimulus is a stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response.

Detailed explanation-4: -Using the terminology of the classical conditioning paradigm, the conditioned stimulus (CS) is a learned stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response. For example, the sound of a bell is the conditioned stimulus in Pavlov’s experiment, and the dogs salivating would be the conditioned response.

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