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Chapter 5: Learning
Multiple-Choice
Answer: a
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 153
Topic: Introduction
Skill: F
Answer: d
Difficulty: 1 2 yr.: 89% r = .20
Page Reference: 153
Topic: Introduction
Skill: F
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3. A type of learning that involves associating one event with another is called ________.
a. vicarious learning
b. latent learning
c. cognitive learning
d. conditioning
Answer: d
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 153
Topic: Introduction
Skill: F
Classical Conditioning
Learning Objectives
Define learning.
Describe the elements of classical conditioning, distinguishing among unconditioned
stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus and conditioned response.
Describe the process of establishing a classically conditioned response, including the
effect of intermittent pairing.
Provide examples of classical conditioning in humans, including desensitization therapy.
Explain the statement that “classical conditioning is selective” and illustrate with
examples of conditioned taste aversions.
4. The type of learning in which a response naturally elicited by one type of stimulus is elicited
by different, formerly neutral, stimulus is called ________.
a. classical conditioning
b. vicarious learning
c. cognitive restructuring
d. operant conditioning
Answer: a
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 153
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
5. The transfer of a response from a natural stimulus to another, previously neutral stimulus, is
called ________.
a. modeling
b. desensitization
c. operant conditioning
d. classical conditioning
Answer: d
Difficulty: 2 4 yr.: 74% r = .33; 2 yr.: 89% r = .32
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Page Reference: 153
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
Answer: d
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 153
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
Answer: b
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 153
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
8. A researcher trains a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell by pairing the ringing of the bell
with the presentation of meat. This type of learning is known as ________.
a. vicarious learning
b. operant conditioning
Incorrect: Operant conditioning occurs when a behavior is controlled by the anticipated
outcomes it will produce.
c. cognitive learning
d. classical conditioning
Correct: The ability of the bell to evoke the response that was originally produced by the meat is
an example of classical conditioning.
Answer: d
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 153-154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
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9. A researcher trains a little boy to fear a rabbit by making a loud, frightening noise every time
the boy approaches the rabbit. This type of learning is known as ________.
a. classical conditioning
Correct: The fact that the rabbit now evokes fear, fear that was originally evoked by the noise, is
an example of classical conditioning.
b. operant conditioning
c. cognitive learning
d. vicarious learning
Incorrect: If the young boy had learned to be afraid of the rabbit by watching his mother or
father demonstrate fear, this would be vicarious (or observational) learning.
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 153-154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
10. By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate
to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, the meat was the
________.
a. unconditioned response
b. conditioned stimulus
c. unconditioned stimulus
d. conditioned response
Answer: c
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
11. By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate
to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, the ringing of the
bell was the ________.
a. unconditioned response
b. unconditioned stimulus
c. conditioned response
d. conditioned stimulus
Answer: d
Difficulty: 3 2 yr.: 70% r = .42; 2 yr.: 57% r = .37
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
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12. By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate
to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, salivation to the
meat was the ________.
a. conditioned response
b. conditioned stimulus
c. unconditioned response
d. unconditioned stimulus
Answer: c
Difficulty: 3 4 yr.: 58% r = .35; 2 yr.: 70% r = .29
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
13. By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate
to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, salivation to the bell
was the ________.
a. conditioned stimulus
b. unconditioned stimulus
c. unconditioned response
d. conditioned response
Answer: d
Difficulty: 3 4 yr.: 66% r = .12; 2 yr.: 76% r = .31
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
14. A response that takes place in an organism whenever an unconditioned stimulus occurs is
a(n) ________.
a. reflex
b. conditioned response
c. vicarious response
d. unconditioned response
Answer: d
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
15. An originally neutral stimulus that is paired with an unconditioned stimulus and eventually
produces the desired response when presented alone is a(n) ________.
a. conditioned stimulus
b. reinforcer
c. antecedent
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d. unconditioned stimulus
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
16. After conditioning, the response an organism produces when only a conditioned stimulus is
presented is a(n) ________.
a. conditioned response
b. unconditioned response
c. reflex
d. vicarious response
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
17. Rachel has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food, the cats come
running to the kitchen. Rachel knows that this is classical conditioning and that the
unconditioned stimulus is the ________.
a. cupboard door opening
Incorrect: The animal learns that the sound of the cupboard is associated with the receipt of cat
food, so the cupboard door opening is a conditioned stimulus.
b. cat food
Correct: The animal reflexively responds to the cat food, so it is the unconditioned stimulus.
c. running of the cats
d. cat
Answer: b
Difficulty: 2 4 yr.: 53% r = .25; 2 yr.: 49% r = .45
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
18. Rachel has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food, the cats come
running to the kitchen. Rachel knows that this is classical conditioning and that the conditioned
stimulus is the ________.
a. cupboard door opening
Correct: The animal learns that the sound of the cupboard is associated with the receipt of cat
food, so the cupboard door opening is a conditioned stimulus.
b. running of the cats
c. cat food
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Incorrect: The animal reflexively responds to the cat food, so it is the unconditioned stimulus.
d. cat
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2 2 yr.: 86% r = .17; 2 yr.: 83% r = .25
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
19. Rachel has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food, the cats come
running to the kitchen. Rachel knows that this is classical conditioning and that the
unconditioned stimulus is the ________ and the conditioned stimulus is the ________.
a. cat food; cupboard door opening
Correct: A conditioned stimulus is one that the cat learns to respond to, and an unconditioned
stimulus is one that happens reflexively.
b. cupboard door opening; cat food
Incorrect: This is the opposite of the correct answer.
c. cat food; kitchen
d. kitchen; cat food
Answer: a
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
20. An experimenter finds that a certain male subject always has an increased heartbeat when he
hears a certain piece of music. The experimenter sounds a buzzer and then plays the piece of
music. The experimenter repeats this procedure until the man responds with an increased
heartbeat to the sound of the buzzer alone. In this situation, the unconditioned response is
________.
a. the piece of music
b. the sound of the buzzer
Incorrect: The sound of a buzzer comes to evoke the response, but the sound itself is a stimulus,
not a response.
c. listening to the music
d. an increased heartbeat
Correct: The increased heartbeat is an unconditioned stimulus when it is evoked by the music,
because it is happening before learning takes place.
Answer: d
Difficulty: 3 4 yr.: 84% r = .39
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
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21. An experimenter finds that a certain male subject always has an increased heartbeat when he
hears a certain piece of music. The experimenter sounds a buzzer and then plays the piece of
music. The experimenter repeats this procedure until the man responds with an increased
heartbeat to the sound of the buzzer alone. In this situation, the conditioned response is
________.
a. listening to the music
b. an increased heartbeat
Correct: The increased heartbeat is an unconditioned stimulus when it is evoked by the buzzer,
because it is happening after learning takes place.
c. the piece of music
d. the sound of the buzzer
Incorrect: The sound of a buzzer comes to evoke the response, but the sound itself is a stimulus,
not a response.
Answer: b
Difficulty: 3 4 yr.: 77% r = .15
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
22. An experimenter finds that a certain male subject always has an increased heartbeat when he
hears a certain piece of music. The experimenter sounds a buzzer and then plays the piece of
music. The experimenter repeats this procedure until the man responds with an increased
heartbeat to the sound of the buzzer alone. In this situation, the unconditioned response is
________ and the conditioned response is ________.
a. listening to the music; listening to the music
b. an increased heartbeat; an increased heartbeat
Correct: In classical conditioning the CR and UR are the same response. What distinguishes
them is the stimulus that causes them to occur.
c. an increased heartbeat; listening to the music
Incorrect: This answer is incorrect because the sound of the music is a stimulus, not a response.
d. listening to the music; an increased heartbeat
Answer: b
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
23. Gloria, the star in the school play, must cry when her “father” tells her to leave home.
During rehearsal, Gloria holds an onion near her eyes when her “father” tells her to leave. The
onion serves as the ________ while being told to “leave home” is the ________.
a. US; UR
b. US; CS
Correct: Gloria is learning to associate a new stimulus (CS) with a stimulus that naturally causes
a response (US).
c. CS; US
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Incorrect: This answer is backwards. The best answer is US;CS.
d. CS; UR
Answer: b
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
24. “Every morning a train goes by my house at 6:30 when I am just sitting down to breakfast.
Lately, however, the train has been coming by at 4:30 and I am having a terrible time getting
back to sleep because I’m so hungry.” In this example of classical conditioning, the conditioned
stimulus is ________ and the conditioned response is ________.
a. eating breakfast; hunger
b. the sound of the train; going back to sleep
Incorrect: The sound of the train is the CS, but the US is getting hungry, not going back to sleep.
c. the sound of the train; hunger
Correct: Because you have learned to respond to the sound of the train by getting hungry, they
are now referred to as the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response.
d. hunger; eating breakfast
Answer: c
Difficulty: 2 4 yr.: 98% r = .09; 4 yr.: 99% r = .09
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
Answer: a
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 154
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
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c. In classical conditioning, the learning takes place most quickly if the pairings of the CS and
US are separated by a very long time.
d. In classical conditioning, the learning takes place most quickly if the pairings of the CS and
US follow each other very rapidly.
Incorrect: Without some separation between the CS and US, the organism in question seems not
to make the association between them that is necessary to maximize learning.
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 155-156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: C
27. Pairing the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus on only a portion of the
learning trials is called ________.
a. partial reinforcement
b. shaping
c. intermittent pairing
d. sporadic pairing
Answer: c
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
28. The use of intermittent pairing ________ the rate of learning while it ________ the final
strength of the learned response.
a. reduces; reduces
Correct: When the CS is paired with the US only a portion of the learning trials, the rate of
learning is reduced, as is the final strength of the learned response.
b. increases; increases
Incorrect: When intermittent pairing is used, it reduces, not increases, the rate of learning and
the final strength of the learned response.
c. increases; reduces
d. reduces; increases
Answer: a
Difficulty: 3
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: C
Answer: d
Difficulty: 3
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
30. One of the best known examples of classical conditioning was the Little Albert study,
conducted by ________.
a. Watson
b. Pavlov
c. Skinner
d. Freud
Answer: a
Difficulty: 1
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
31. In the experiment with Little Albert, the conditioned stimulus was ________.
a. Albert
b. the rat
Correct: Little Albert had to learn to fear the rat, so the rat was a conditioned stimulus.
c. the loud noise
Incorrect: Because the noise evoked a response reflexively, it is referred to as an unconditioned
stimulus.
d. the laboratory room
Answer: b
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
32. In the experiment with Little Albert, the conditioned response was fear of the ________.
a. rat
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Correct: Little Albert learned to be afraid of the rat, this fear was called a conditioned response.
b. loud noise
Incorrect: Little Albert was reflexively afraid of the noise, so this fear would be an unconditioned
response.
c. laboratory
d. experimenter
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
33. In the experiment with Little Albert, the unconditioned stimulus was the ________.
a. rat
Incorrect: Little Albert had to learn to fear the rat, so the rat was a conditioned stimulus.
b. loud noise
Correct: Because the noise evoked a response reflexively, it is referred to as an unconditioned
stimulus.
c. experimenter
d. laboratory
Answer: b
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
34. In the experiment with Little Albert, the unconditioned response was fear of the ________.
a. rat
Incorrect: Little Albert learned to be afraid of the rat, this fear was called a conditioned
response.
b. loud noise
Correct: Little Albert was reflexively afraid of the noise, so this fear would be an unconditioned
response.
c. laboratory
d. experimenter
Answer: b
Difficulty: 2 2 yr.: 47% r = .33
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
35. In the Watson and Rayner study of Little Albert, the white rat was the ________ and the
loud noise was the ________.
a. US; UR
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b. CS; CR
c. CS; US
Correct: The rat did not evoke a fear response reflexively, and the loud noise did. This means the
rat was the CS and the noise was the US.
d. US; CS
Incorrect: This answer is backwards, because the rat did not evoke a reflexive response, while
the loud noise did.
Answer: c
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
36. In the Watson and Rayner study of Little Albert, the UR was ________ and the CR was
________.
a. crying and crawling away; crying and crawling away
Correct: In classical conditioning, the UR and the CR are the same response; the difference is
based on what stimulus is used to evoke the response.
b. the loud noise; the white rat
Incorrect: These are the CS and US (stimuli) not the responses.
c. crawling toward the rat and playing with it; crying and crawling away
d. crying and crawling away; crawling toward the rat and playing with it
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: A
37. Mary Cover Jones first demonstrated that children’s fears can be ________.
a. unlearned through classical conditioning
b. unlearned through operant conditioning
c. learned through classical conditioning
d. learned through operant conditioning
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
38. A kind of therapy closely related to classical conditioning that is designed to gradually
reduce anxiety about a particular object or situation is known as ________ therapy.
a. psychoanalytic
b. desensitization
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c. conditioned
d. response
Answer: b
Difficulty: 1 4 yr.: 86% r = .26; 2 yr.: 69% r = .24
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Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
Answer: c
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: C
40. Wolpe’s therapy for treating anxiety, which involves the pairing of relaxation training with a
hierarchical list of fearful situations, is called ________.
a. desensitization
b. operant conditioning
c. shaping
d. aversive conditioning
Answer: a
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
41. The person most closely associated with the development of desensitization therapy is
________.
a. John B. Watson
b. Joseph Wolpe
c. B. F. Skinner
d. Sigmund Freud
Answer: b
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Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 156
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
42. Researchers have discovered that many autoimmune disorders can be successfully controlled
without drug treatments through the use of ________ procedures.
a. desensitization
b. operant conditioning
c. vicarious learning
d. classical conditioning
Answer: d
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 156-167
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
Answer: a
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 157
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
44. The process by which some stimuli, such as snakes, serve readily as conditioned stimuli for
certain responses, such as fear in humans, is called ________.
a. the diathesis-stress model
b. mental set
c. response acquisition
d. preparedness
Answer: d
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 157
Topic: Classical Conditioning
Skill: F
45. The psychologist most closely associated with the concept of preparedness is ________.
a. Seligman
b. Wolpe
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