Unit 2 Quiz Flashcards
Ivan Pavlov is best known for his research on the
Psychic reflex
Research shows that when women receiving chemotherapy return to the hospital, they show
Decreased immune functioning
A follow-up of exhibitionists treated by Barry Maletzke with a variation of aversion therapy showed that those who had undergone treatment in voluntarily
Improved as much as voluntary patients
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
Staats and Staats
In studying psychic secretions, Pavlov focus his attention on the
Events in the dogs environment
The experiments of stats and stats with nonsense syllables are examples of this type of conditioning
Higher-order
Pavlov was born in
Russia
Graham and cDesJardins established the odour of _____ as a CS for sexual arousal in rats
Wintergreen
The researcher who might have become known as the American Pavlov was
Edwin Twitmyer
The author of your text uses the terms unconditional reflex and conditional reflex, but he notes that most authors use the terms ______ and _______ reflexes
Conditioned; unconditioned
Pavlov is best described as
An experimenter from head to foot
The rate of conditioning is affected by the degree to which the US is _________ __ the occurrence of the CS
Contingent on
The CS and US in the Garcia experiment were
Flavoured water and radiation
People are most likely to come to tolerate painful and humiliating events if these events consistently
Precede positive events
True or false: In contrast to Thomas Edison, Pavlov worked independently
False
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
False
True or false: Pavlovian conditioning accounts for negative emotions, but not for positive ones
False
Peter, whose case was described in connection with Mary cover Jones’s work, had fear that was the result of conditioning buy a researcher
False
True or false: one way to test for the effects of conditioning is to use test trial
True
True or false: Pavlov won the Nobel prize for his research on conditioning
False
Conditional reflexes are so named because they
Depend on many conditions
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
Pre-conditioning
In this type of conditioning, the CS and US overlap
Delayed
Each pairing of a CS and US is one
Trial
A CS that consists of two or more stimuli is called a _______ stimulus
Compound
Pet Ophelia may be partly the result of the pairing of ________ , or pictures of them, and sexual stimulation
Children
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
No, not an example of Pavlovian conditioning
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?
No, not an example of Pavlovian conditioning
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
In vivo desensitization
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
Flooding
In Pavlovian conditioning, contiguity usually refers to the
Time between CS and US
