CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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 ____
A
Puff of air; blinking
B
Bell; blinking
C
Puff of air; bell
D
Bell; puff of air
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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. In the described experiment, the conditioned stimulus was the ringing of the bell, and the conditioned response was salivation.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Pavlov’s experiments, what type of stimulus was the bell, generally? conditioned.

Detailed explanation-3: -Definition. Eye blink conditioning is one type of classical conditioning. Application of air puff to an eye makes the eyelid close to prevent injury of the eyeball. This is a simple defensive reflex and air puff is called unconditioned stimulus.

Detailed explanation-4: -In classical conditioning, the initial period of learning is known as acquisition, when an organism learns to connect a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus.

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