When Peter was three years old, he was clawed very badly by the neighbor's cat. Today, Peter is afraid of all small animals, including rabbits and puppies. Peter's fear of all small animals illustrates the classical conditioning process referred to as:
a. stimulus discrimination
b. stimulus generalization
c. aversive conditioning
d. conditioned inhibition
B
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Which of these factors has the least influence on personality development?
a. friends b. individual experiences c. shared environment d. random variances due to imprecise measurement
The appropriate control for pseudoconditioning is to employ a conditioning group and a control group. The animals in the control group are exposed to the same number of CS and US presentations as the animals in the experimental group, but in the control group
a. the CS never precedes the US. b. the CS is different than the CS in the conditioning group. c. the CS and US presentations are unpaired and presented randomly. d. theUS is different than the US in the conditioning group.