Multiple Choice Quiz


1	On his way home, Axelrod sees an advertisement for a new, extra thick pizza and begins to salivate. Which of the following is most likely the CS in this example?
		A)	the salivation
		B)	the sign
		C)	the time of day
		D)	hunger


2	Many people experience extreme anxiety at the sound of a dentist's drill. The sound of the drill represents a
		A)	UCS.
		B)	UCR.
		C)	CR.
		D)	CS.


3	Insulin injections cause a reduction in blood glucose levels, making you feel hungry. If hunger is the UCR, what is the UCS?
		A)	insulin reduction
		B)	decreases in blood glucose
		C)	food deprivation
		D)	a and/or b


4	Having given yourself numerous insulin injections there, you find that you become hungry when you enter your bedroom. Your bedroom has become a
		A)	UCS.
		B)	CR.
		C)	CS.
		D)	UCR.


5	In classical conditioning the "learned" response is designated as the
		A)	CR.
		B)	UCR.
		C)	CS.
		D)	UCS.


6	Animals in the wild locate food rewards using which classical conditioning process?
		A)	sign-tracking
		B)	latent inhibition
		C)	extinction
		D)	response deprivation


7	Brown and Jenkins (1968) conducted the first laboratory demonstration of
		A)	ingestive neophobia.
		B)	autoshaping.
		C)	learned helplessness.
		D)	higher-order conditioning.


8	A suppression ratio of 0 indicates that the animal
		A)	did not evidence any fear.
		B)	did not respond at all during the CS.
		C)	evidenced mild fear.
		D)	a and b


9	Garb and Stunkard (1974) found that most flavor aversions in humans developed:
		A)	between 18 and 24 years of age
		B)	between 6 months and 1 year of age
		C)	between 6 and 12 years of age
		D)	before 18 months of age


10	Which classical conditioning paradigm is being used when the CS is presented and terminated prior to the onset of the UCS?
		A)	backward
		B)	delayed
		C)	temporal
		D)	trace


11	Many of us often awaken just before the alarm clock goes off. The ability to do this is learned through
		A)	delayed conditioning.
		B)	trace conditioning.
		C)	temporal conditioning.
		D)	simultaneous conditioning.


12	The ease with which a CS becomes associated with a UCS determines the CS's
		A)	relevance.
		B)	salience.
		C)	alliance.
		D)	reference.


13	If the CS is presented by itself several times before it is paired with a UCS, the rate of conditioning is
		A)	slowed.
		B)	unaffected.
		C)	increased.
		D)	subject to spontaneous recovery.


14	The ability of the CS to predict the occurrence of the UCS is reduced if
		A)	the UCS is presented alone without the CS.
		B)	the CS is presented alone without the UCS.
		C)	other CSs predict the UCS.
		D)	all of the above


15	Presenting a novel stimulus during extinction often results in a reappearance of the CR. Pavlov called this
		A)	external inhibition.
		B)	disinhibition.
		C)	reaction formation.
		D)	blocking.

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