Quiz 2 (Psych 049)

Misses

I want to make sure that I don’t mistake a raccoon for our dog in the backyard. However there have been several reports of coyote attacks. Therefore, the strategy that I will adopt will minimize

• False Alarms

• Hits

• Correct rejections

• Misses

neutral

A conditioned response is the response to a previously _______stimulus

• experienced 

• obnoxious

• emotional

• neutral 

Include a few presentations of just the loud sound without the furry animal

How could baby Albert have unlearned his irrational fear? Pick the quickest way to unlearn. (Think about how in the tone+shock experiments by Robert Rescorla adding a few trials where only shock was presented caused unlearning or lack of conditioned response to tone)

• Include a few presentations of just the loud sound without the furry animal

• Fewer pairings of the furry animal with the loud sound

• More pairings of the furry animal with the loud sound

One example of non associative learning is

• correct rejection

• classical conditioning 

• habituation 

• sensory adaptation

false alarms

I am expecting a visitor, but I am not sure when they will arrive. And I know when they arrive they can wait.  I am also working on an important assignment therefore I would prefer to not be unnecessarily disturbed. Therefore, the strategy that I will adopt to minimize:

• False Alarms 

• Hits 

• Correct rejections

• Misses

scary scene = US, mask = CS

Horror movies use masks in association with scary scenes which makes people develop a phobia or irrational fear of masks. Masks are usually benign or harmless but after being associated with horror movies a fear of masks develops. After conditioning, in this example what is the CS and US?

• scary scene=US

• scary scene=CS

• Mask=US

• Mask=CS