Exam 4: Pavlovian Applications

Mary Cover Jones cured Peter's fear of ______.

VRET owes a debt to the work of Mary Cover Jones.

Pavlovian conditioning accounts for negative emotions, but not for positive ones.

Conditioned Reflexes and Psychiatry was written by __________.

A follow-up of exhibitionists treated by Barry Maletzky with a variation of aversion therapy showed that those who had undergone treatment involuntarily ____________.

The CS in the Little Albert study was a _______.

Blue jays usually do not eat Monarch butterflies. This is an example of a(n) __________.

Research shows that when women receiving chemotherapy return to the hospital, they show __________.

Staats and Staats demonstrated that both positive and negative biases could be established through conditioning.

Blue jays acquire a taste aversion for _________.

The use of classical conditioning to change feelings (such as likes and dislikes) is sometimes called ___________.

Peter's fear of a rabbit was established in a laboratory.

Researchers tried to change the preferences for two brands of ____________ but were unsuccessful when the subjects were strongly attached to a brand.

Describe the work of Watson and Rayner with Little Albert.

The term used to refer to sexual behavior disapproved of by society is ___________.

The most recent variation of counterconditioning involves__________.

Studies of taste aversion demonstrate that conditioning can occur despite a long inter-stimulus interval.

Describe how a person might learn to be embarrassed by the word strawberry.

How might you use Pavlovian conditioning to produce a boost in the body's immune system in response to a CS?

One VRET program for treating spider phobias is called ______.