Name:____________________________________________________________________

Date:________________________ Period:____

Classical Conditioning Practice

Directions: For each of the following, identify the UCS, UCR, CS, and CR

1.You’re taking a shower in the upstairs bathroom when someone flushes the toilet
in the downstairs bathroom and you get hit with a blast of extremely hot water.
Before long, you jump out of the shower whenever you hear a toilet flush in the
house.

UCS______________________________________
UCR______________________________________
CS________________________________________
CR________________________________________

2. Your doctor treats a condition you have with a shot he gives you in the office.
The shot causes your heart rate to increase rapidly. Soon, just entering the doctor’s
office causes your heart to race.

UCS______________________________________
UCR______________________________________
CS________________________________________
CR________________________________________

3. Your date last night wore a particularly pungent cologne. The date ended with
much passionate kissing which put you into a state of rapturous joy. You noticed
this morning that your clothes still smell of the cologne, and you immediately fell
into the same joyful state.

UCS_______________________________________
UCR______________________________________
CS________________________________________
CR________________________________________

4. You attended a frat party last night where the drink of the night was mixed with
orange juice. You drank enough of them that you ended up vomiting in the toilet.
The next morning, Mom and Dad came to visit you at college. They took you out
to breakfast. Mom ordered a big glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice and offered
you some, putting the glass under your nose. You immediately threw up all over

































 Mom’s eggs and Dad’s pancakes.

UCS______________________________________
UCR______________________________________
CS________________________________________
CR________________________________________












 Classical Conditioning practice Answer KEY

1. UCS= hot water
UCR= jump
CS= “flush”
CR= jump

2. UCS= pain/panic
UCR= heart racing
CS= doctor’s office
CR= heart racing

3. UCS= kissing
UCR= joy
CS= cologne
CR= joy

4. UCS= alcohol
UCR= vomiting
CS= smell of orange juice
CR= vomiting