Famous Experiments
Key Terms
Before and After
Real-Life Examples
Generalization & Discrimination
100

Who is the Russian scientist known for studying dogs and salivation?

Who is Ivan Pavlov

100

What is the natural response to a stimulus called?

What is an unconditioned response?

100

Before conditioning, what causes a natural response?

What is the unconditioned stimulus?

100

You hear an ice cream truck and get excited. What is the sound?

What is a conditioned stimulus?

100

What is it called when a response happens to similar stimuli?

What is generalization?

200

In Pavlov's experiment, what object was used to signal the food?

What is a bell?

200

What do we call a stimulus that triggers a learned response?

What is conditioned stimulus?

200

After conditioning, what causes the response?

What is the conditioned stimulus?

200

A dog runs to its bowl after hearing the cabinet door close. Why?

Because it learned to associate the sound with food.

200

What is it called when you only respond to a specific stimulus?

what is discrimination?

300

Which child was conditioned to fear a white rat in a famous study?

Who is Little Albert?

300

What term describes learning through associations between stimuli?

What is classical conditioning?

300

What was the dog's salivation to the bell after conditioning.

What is a conditioned response?

300

A student feels anxious when walking into a testing room. Why?

its a conditioned response from past test anxiety.

300

If a dog salivates to all bells, not just one tone, what is this?

What is stimulus generalization?

400

Who conducted the Little Albert experiment?

Who are John Watson & Rosalie Rayner?

400

When a neutral stimulus becomes meaningful?

What is conditioned stimulus?

400

What is the dog's reaction to food before conditioning called?

What is a unconditioned response?

400

Someone gets sick after eating shrimp once and now avoids it. What is it called?

What is taste aversion?

400

How does discrimination improve classical conditioning?

By helping an organism respond only to the relevant stimuli.

500

In the Little Albert study, what sound was used to create fear?

What is a loud banging noise?

500

What is the process of removing a conditioned response over time?

what is extinction?

500

How do we know when conditioning has taken place?

When the conditioned stimulus alone causes the response.

500

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?

500

A child fears all dogs after being bitten by one. What does this show?

What is stimulus generalization?