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CS and US in the Little Albert experiment were ____,

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rat and loud sound

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the CS in the Little Albert experiment was ___

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rat

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first person to use counterconditioning to treat a phobia was probably ___

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Mary Cover Jones

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in treating peters fear of rabbits, Jones used a procedure called

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counterconditioning

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most recent variation of counterconditioning involves

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virtual reality

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Barbara Rothbaum and colleagues used virtually reality exposure therapy to treat a fear of

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flying

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one VRET program for treating spider phobias is called

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SpiderWorld

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the studies of Carolyn and Arthur Staats demonstrating that neutral words paired with pleasant words become pleasant examples of

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higher-orderconditioning

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research that is most helpful in understanding racial prejudice is probably that of

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Staats and Staats

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term used to refer to sexual behaviors disapproved of by society is

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paraphilias

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

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evaluative conditioning

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Pavlov found that when he paired painful stimuli with food, the dog came to show no distress at the painful stimuli. This experiment may help explain __________ behavior in humans.

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masochistic

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people are most likely to tolerate painful humiliating events if these events consistently

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precede positive events

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in ___ therapy, a stimulus that elicits an inappropriate response is paired with a negative stimulus such as shock or emetic drug

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aversion

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Barry Maletzky treated exhibitionists by having them imagine that they were about to perform the inappropriate behavior, and then _______.

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expositing them to an unpleasant odor

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

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improved as much as voluntary patients

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the CS and US in the Garcia et al. experiment were

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flavored water and radiation

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Gracias first experiment on taste aversion was unusual in that the __-

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intervals between CS and Us was several minutes

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Gracias interest in the role of learning in taste aversions may have begun when he became sick after eating

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licorice

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blue jays usually do not eat Monarch butterflies--this is an ex of

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conditioned taste aversion

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Senatorial candidate Smith's popularity increased dramatically after he was seen on television shaking hands with a very popular public figure. This is probably an example of__________.

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emotional conditioning

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Morgan Doran and his colleagues found that after taste aversion training, ___ would remove weeds from a vineyard without damaging the grape plants

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sheep

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Elnora Stuart and colleagues paired slides of pleasant scents with

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toothpaste

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researches tried to change the preferences for 2 brands of ___ but were unsuccessful when the subjects were strongly attached to a brand

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soft drinks

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Shepard Siegels work suggests that some deaths attributed to ___ are actually the result of conditioning

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drug overdose

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Diana woodruff-pak found that people who condition slowly are more likely to develop

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dementia

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if a person sneezes after coming close to a realistic-looking artificial flower, you can be pretty sure that he or she is

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allergic to pollen

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research shows that when women receiving chemo return to the hospital, they show

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decreased immune functioning

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Conditioned reflexes and psychiatry was written by

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Ivan Pavlov

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phenomenon of ____ suggests that we should be more likely to develop aversions to novel foods than to familiar ones

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latent inhibition

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Peters fear, like Alberts, was the result of conditioning by a researcher

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F

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Peters fear of a rabbit was established in a lab

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F

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Exposure therapy is really a form of counterconditioning

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T

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VRET owes a debt to the work of mary cover jones

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T

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

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T

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Pavlovian conditioning is an adaptive mechanism but can nevertheless result in the acquisition of maladaptive behavior

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T

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If an aversive stimulus, such as a noxious odor, regularly precedes a pleasant stimulus, such as a tasty meal, the former stimulus may lose much of its unpleasant quality

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T

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

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T

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Pavlovian conditioning accounts for negative emotions, but not positive ones

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F

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political campaign ads attempt to use conditioning by pairing their candidate with stimuli that evoke positive emotions and by pairing the opponent candidate with stimuli that evoke negative emotions

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T

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The CS in the little albert study was a ___

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white rat

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Arne Ohman and his colleagues used conditioning to establish a fear of __ in college students

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snakes

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Mary Cover Jones cured peters fear of

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rabbits

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VRET stands for

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virtual reality exposure therapy

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Prejudice is an example of

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conditioned emotional response

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Thomas Parish and colleagues reduced the bias of white American children toward Vietnamese by pairing images of Vietnamese with

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positive words

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blue jays acquire a taste aversion for

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monarch butterflies

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Pavlovian conditioning suggests that stimuli associated with chemotherapy (such as the clinic where the patient is treated) might suppress the patient's _______ system.

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immune

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displaying ones genitals to another person without their consent

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exhibitionism

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attraction to certain objects or body parts

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fetishism

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inflicting pain on sexual partner

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sadism

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becoming humiliated or hurt by a sexual partner

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masochism

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viewing a person who is nude or partially clothed who is engaging in sexual activity

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voyeurism

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wearing the clothes of opposite sex

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transvestism

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sexual activity with a prepubescent child

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pedophilia

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sexual arousal to originally nonsexual stimuli

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paraphilias

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