Classical Conditioning

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1) Identify the following elements of Pavlovâs original experiment:
 
    Unconditioned Stimulus (US) -
 
    Unconditioned Response (UR) -
 

    Conditioned Stimulus (CS) -

 

    Conditioned Response (CR) -
 
 

2) Identify the following elements of the fear-conditioning example:

 

    Unconditioned Stimulus (US) -

 

    Unconditioned Response (UR) -

 

    Conditioned Stimulus (CS) -

 

    Conditioned Response (CR) -
 
 

3) What is spontaneous recovery?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

4) A young child learns to call the family pet ãcat.ä  Later, the child sees a dog for the first time

    and calls it a ãcat.ä  Explain how discrimination and generalization apply to this example.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5) Why was it necessary to test the tone to make sure the subject did not blink in response

     to the tone before conditioning the eye-blink response?