A Dog, Taught to Salivate to the Sound of a Buzzer

question 153

Multiple Choice

A dog, taught to salivate to the sound of a buzzer, learned that the buzzer was no longer followed by food and stopped salivating to the buzzer. If the buzzer was again sounded after a few weeks, and the dog was in the same environment, the dog would probably ________.

• A) not salivate
• B) salivate
• C) require many trial pairings of the buzzer and the food to reestablish the association and begin salivating to the buzzer again
• D) salivate only if the buzzer was dissimilar to the one on which it was conditioned

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