Chapter 5 - Phobias

Question 0

How might the social learning theory make a bird afraid of a rabbit?

Answer 0

Have two birds, a teacher and a learner. Put the both of them in separate cages near each other but so they can’t see each other. Get the teacher bird to see an owl whilst the only thing the learner bird can see is a rabbit. The teacher bird makes a distress alarm call to the other bird. The learner bird now becomes scared of rabbits

Question 1

Condition a dog to produce saliva when it hears a bell?

Answer 1

Before conditioning:
NS (bell) ---> no response, UCS (food) ---> UCR (salvation)
During conditioning:
NS + UCS ---> UCR
After conditioning:
CS (bell) ---> CR (salvation)

Question 2

What’s preparedness?

Answer 2

The tendency to learn some associations more easily quickly and permanently than others