Famous Experiments
Who is the Russian scientist known for studying dogs and salivation?
Who is Ivan Pavlov
What is the natural response to a stimulus called?
What is an unconditioned response?
Before conditioning, what causes a natural response?
What is the unconditioned stimulus?
You hear an ice cream truck and get excited. What is the sound?
What is a conditioned stimulus?
What is it called when a response happens to similar stimuli?
What is generalization?
In Pavlov's experiment, what object was used to signal the food?
What is a bell?
What do we call a stimulus that triggers a learned response?
What is conditioned stimulus?
After conditioning, what causes the response?
What is the conditioned stimulus?
A dog runs to its bowl after hearing the cabinet door close. Why?
Because it learned to associate the sound with food.
What is it called when you only respond to a specific stimulus?
what is discrimination?
Which child was conditioned to fear a white rat in a famous study?
Who is Little Albert?
What term describes learning through associations between stimuli?
What is classical conditioning?
What was the dog's salivation to the bell after conditioning.
What is a conditioned response?
A student feels anxious when walking into a testing room. Why?
its a conditioned response from past test anxiety.
If a dog salivates to all bells, not just one tone, what is this?
What is stimulus generalization?
Who conducted the Little Albert experiment?
Who are John Watson & Rosalie Rayner?
When a neutral stimulus becomes meaningful?
What is conditioned stimulus?
What is the dog's reaction to food before conditioning called?
What is a unconditioned response?
Someone gets sick after eating shrimp once and now avoids it. What is it called?
What is taste aversion?
How does discrimination improve classical conditioning?
By helping an organism respond only to the relevant stimuli.
In the Little Albert study, what sound was used to create fear?
What is a loud banging noise?
What is the process of removing a conditioned response over time?
what is extinction?
How do we know when conditioning has taken place?
When the conditioned stimulus alone causes the response.
A person hears a song that reminds them of a breakup and feels sad. What part of classical conditioning does this show?
What is emotional conditioning?
A child fears all dogs after being bitten by one. What does this show?
What is stimulus generalization?