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AP Psychology

Unit 6: Learning
Study Guide Questions #2
This will take the place of chapter notes. Please be thorough in your answers.
Unit 6 Homework #2
Due Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Read Pages: 223-228
Q1. Why do classical conditioning treatments that ignore cognition often have limited
success?
Q2. Describe the findings of Garcia and Koelling regarding the rats aversion to drinking
water from the plastic bottles in the radiation chambers. Was classical conditioning the
reason?
Q3. Explain why human taste aversion is more biologically predisposed then classically
conditioned.
Q4. Provide an example of how learning enables animals to adapt to their environment.
Q5. Briefly list at least one point of the biopsychosocial influences on learning (levels of
analysis).
Q6. How does chemotherapy trigger nausea conditioning in cancer patient?
Q7. What are the two important points we have learned from Pavlovs work?
Q8. Provide two applications of classical conditioning.
Q9. How did Watson and Rayner show how specific fears might be conditioned?

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