Exam 4: Classical Conditioning: Learning to Predict Significant Events

To use extinction to prevent relapses in a recovering drug addict, one would:

In the Rescorla-Wagner model, if a novel CS is followed by an unexpected US, the prediction error is:

A regular drug user can have an elevated reaction to his usual drug if he takes that drug in a new environment. In this example, the familiar environment in which the drug is normally taken is a:

Suppose a child acquired a fear of the doctor's office because the office came to be associated with getting shots. To remove this fear, the child's parents decide to bring the child to the doctor's office several times each week without the child getting a shot. What technique are the parents using to eliminate the child's fear?

Bouton's work suggests that cue-exposure therapy should:

What is a conditioned compensatory response? Explain what purpose it serves.

Regarding CS modulation theories versus US modulation theories, it seems to be that _____ is/are correct.

A theory of learning in which all of the cues that occur during a trial and all of the changes that result are considered a single event is known as:

The results of Garcia and Koelling's taste-aversion studies demonstrate that animals can:

The conditioned compensatory response occurs in response to the _____ in order to prepare the organism for the _____.

The final exit point of CR information from the cerebellum is/are the:

In Siegel et al.'s study of heroin tolerance in rats, which group experienced the LOWEST mortality rate when given a large dose of heroin?

Explain how a specific phobia could be acquired through classical conditioning, being sure to identify the unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response in the example. Also, indicate how the phobia could be extinguished using classical conditioning.

In a latent-inhibition paradigm, the animals in the experimental group:

Describe the contribution of the hippocampus to CS modulation.

Consider a blocking experiment in which an animal is first conditioned to associate a light with shock and then is presented with a tone and light together followed by shock. According to CS modulation theories such as that of Mackintosh, blocking would occur because the:

According to the phenomenon of conditioned compensatory response, drug addicts develop a tolerance to their drug because:

In Garcia and Koelling's taste-aversion studies, which was an unconditioned stimulus?

Describe an experimental procedure one could use to study blocking in humans (other than the category-learning procedure discussed in the text). Be sure to indicate what outcome would signal that blocking had occurred.

The _____ prepares the organism for the expected _____.