Classical Conditioning: Practice by Kathleen Riek edited by me!
Natalie goes to the park and is playing near a tree.
She bumps into a branch that just happens to house a squirrel that proceeds to attack her.
After she recovers from her squirrel attack, she refuses to go near the park.
attacked by a squirrel__ UCS
fear UCR
____avoids the park_____ CR
The park__ CS
Sharks are scary.
“Big Girls Don’t Cry” doesn’t usually scare you.
“Big Girls Don’t Cry” plays when sharks are approaching.
“Big Girls Don’t Cry” plays, and you get nervous.
____sharks____ UCS
__scared _____UCR
______nervous___________ CR
“Big Girls Don’t Cry”______ CS
What is acquisition? Define the term in your own words and apply it to the example above.
Trips on cruise ships make you sick.
The sound of a foghorn doesn’t make you sick.
The foghorn blows while you are on the cruise ship getting sick.
Foghorns make you want to throw up.
______riding
_sound
on a boat_____ UCS
of foghorn________ CS
__sick______UCR
___throw
up________ CR
What is extinction? Define the term in your own words. How could you apply it to the example above?
What is spontaneous recovery? Define the term in your own words. How could you apply it to the example above?
Eating pickles makes you salivate.
The word “pickle” doesn’t make you salivate.
Before even eating the pickle, you think to yourself “Mmm…pickles!”
The thought of pickles makes you salivate.
______eating
pickles____ UCS
salivate______UCR
___salivate_________ CR
Thinking of pickles________ CS
What is stimulus generalization? Define the term in your own words and apply it to the example above.
John’s mother was a great baker.
When he was a boy, she would spend all Saturday baking while listening to AC/DC.
The smell of cakes, breads, and cookies and the sound of music would fill the house.
Twenty years later, John can’t listen to AC/DC without getting hungry.
__smell
of baking_______ UCS
___hearing
AC/DC_________ CS
_hungry____UCR
__hungry________ CR
What is stimulus discrimination/distinction? Define the term in your own words and apply it to the example above.
Jeannie was sitting in a Chinese restaurant with her fiancé when he told her he was leaving her for a chorus girl from Las
Vegas named Cherries Flambé.
Now, whenever she walks past a Chinese restaurant, she gets very, very sad.
_being
dumped__________ UCS
_Chinese
restaurant_______ CS
___depressed/sad__UCR
__very
sad_____ CR
Little Jimmy goes to Grandma and Grandpa’s, and every time, he gets knocked down by their new dog Fluffy.
Jimmy soon becomes terrified of going to his grandparents’, screaming louder the closer he comes to the front door.
__dog
jumps on him________ UCS
_grandparents’
house______ CS
__afraid_____UCR
___terrified_____ CR
Susan and Dan hear the song “Crank Dat” by Soldja Boy during their first date, which, as it turns out, was wonderful.
Now when Susan hears the song, she gets goosebumps and her heart flutters.
_good
1st date_________ UCS
__happy/
excited______UCR
goose bumps/fluttering CR
_”Crank
Dat”__________ CS
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