Unit 2 Quiz

Question 1

Ivan Pavlov is best known for his research on the

Answer 1

Psychic reflex

Question 2

Research shows that when women receiving chemotherapy return to the hospital, they show

Answer 2

Decreased immune functioning

Question 3

A follow-up of exhibitionists treated by Barry Maletzke with a variation of aversion therapy showed that those who had undergone treatment in voluntarily

Answer 3

Improved as much as voluntary patients

Question 4

The use of euphemisms, the use of a relatively in offensive word or phrase to refer to something troubling or disturbing, is best explained by the work of

Answer 4

Staats and Staats

Question 5

In studying psychic secretions, Pavlov focus his attention on the

Answer 5

Events in the dogs environment

Question 6

The experiments of stats and stats with nonsense syllables are examples of this type of conditioning

Answer 6

Higher-order

Question 7

Pavlov was born in

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Russia

Question 8

Graham and cDesJardins established the odour of _____ as a CS for sexual arousal in rats

Answer 8

Wintergreen

Question 9

The researcher who might have become known as the American Pavlov was

Answer 9

Edwin Twitmyer

Question 10

The author of your text uses the terms unconditional reflex and conditional reflex, but he notes that most authors use the terms ______ and _______ reflexes

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Conditioned; unconditioned

Question 11

Pavlov is best described as

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An experimenter from head to foot

Question 12

The rate of conditioning is affected by the degree to which the US is _________ __ the occurrence of the CS

Answer 12

Contingent on

Question 13

The CS and US in the Garcia experiment were

Answer 13

Flavoured water and radiation

Question 14

People are most likely to come to tolerate painful and humiliating events if these events consistently

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Precede positive events

Question 15

True or false: In contrast to Thomas Edison, Pavlov worked independently

Answer 15

False

Question 16

True or false: if a CS is presented several times alone and is then repeatedly paired with a US, conditioning proceeds more rapidly than if the CS had never been presented alone

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False

Question 17

True or false: Pavlovian conditioning accounts for negative emotions, but not for positive ones

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Peter, whose case was described in connection with Mary cover Jones’s work, had fear that was the result of conditioning buy a researcher

Answer 18

False

Question 19

True or false: one way to test for the effects of conditioning is to use test trial

Answer 19

True

Question 20

True or false: Pavlov won the Nobel prize for his research on conditioning

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Conditional reflexes are so named because they

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Depend on many conditions

Question 22

If two stimuli are paired and then one becomes a CS, the other will become a CS more rapidly than it otherwise would have. This phenomenon is called sensory

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Pre-conditioning

Question 23

In this type of conditioning, the CS and US overlap

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Delayed

Question 24

Each pairing of a CS and US is one

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Trial

Question 25

A CS that consists of two or more stimuli is called a _______ stimulus

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Compound

Question 26

Pet Ophelia may be partly the result of the pairing of ________ , or pictures of them, and sexual stimulation

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Children

Question 27

Lisa was in a psychology experiment in which she was given a mild shock 25 times during the course of the experiment. At first, showing Lisa a picture of a tiger had no effect on her GSR response. However, after the experiment Lisa made the GSR response to the tiger slide and slides of several other animals.

Is this an example of Pavlovian conditioning? If so, what is the US

Answer 27

No, not an example of Pavlovian conditioning

Question 28

Oscar had once been an athlete, but after years of working at a desk he had become soft and portly. He began an exercise program with the encouragement of his wife. As part of the program he engaged in a combination of running and walking every day. He recorded the number of miles he travelled every day and put this information on a graph. The graph, together with his wife’s praise for his running, helped Oscar keep up his exercise. He’s overall health improved

Is this an example of Pavlovian conditioning? If so, what is the UR?

Answer 28

No, not an example of Pavlovian conditioning

Question 29

Francine had a huge fear of spiders. This posed problems because she wanted to go on a backpacking trip to an area where many spiders lived. Francine’s roommate, Kelly, was a behaviour therapist. First, Kelly taught Francine to relax and to remain relaxed while a small spider was on the other side of the room in a secure glass cage. Then Kelly brought the spider increasingly closer to Francine, while Francine continue to remain relaxed. This continued until Francine could remain relaxed even when a large spider crawl med near her out of its glass cage

Which of the following is best illustrated in the above example

Answer 29

In vivo desensitization

Question 30

Greta had a terrible fear of insects. She volunteered for an experiment in which people with insect fears were being tested. As a part of the treatment for the problem, the experimenter had Greta imagine that she was in a cage full of all types of crawling and flying insects. The insects are crawling all over her body and into her nose, ears, and mouth. After several sessions of therapy, Greta lost her fear of insects.

Which of the following is best illustrated in the above example

Answer 30

Flooding

Question 31

In Pavlovian conditioning, contiguity usually refers to the

Answer 31

Time between CS and US