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1. Classical conditioning
a. Determine the UCS, UCR, NS, CS, and CR in the following situation: Ms. Lan yells
at Hoa. Now when Hoa comes to class, she gets nervous, feels nauseated, and her palms get sweaty.
b. Recall a time in your life when your behaviors were influenced by classical
conditioning. Describe in detail the nature of the unconditioned and conditioned
stimuli and the response, using the appropriate psychological terms. lOMoARcPSD|50713028
2. Operant conditioning Positive Negative Positive Negative Situations
reinforcement reinforcement punishment punishment
After performing in a community
theater play, you receive applause from the audience.
A teen girl does not clean up her room as she was asked, so her
parents take away her phone for the rest of the day.
A professor tells students that if
they have perfect attendance all
semester, then they do not have to
take the final comprehensive exam.
You train your dog to fetch by
offering him praise and a pat on the head whenever he performs the behavior correctly.
If you fail to hand in a project on
time, your boss becomes angry and
berates your performance in front of your co-workers.
3. Classical vs. operant conditioning Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Response Involuntary, automatic
___________, operates on environment Associating __________ with a Acquisition Associating events ___________ .
A CS is repeatedly presented alone
Responding gradually slows and stops ___________
until it no longer elicits a CR.
after reinforcement is terminated.
Responding does not increase in the
A CR is not elicited by a new stimulus Discrimination
presence of a stimulus that resembles
that ____________ the original CS.
the original discriminative stimulus.
Responding _____________ in the
A CR is elicited by a new stimulus Generalization
presence of a stimulus that resembles
that _____________ the original CS.
the original discriminative stimulus.