A Startling Noise Will Always Cause the Human Eye to Blink.If

question 148

Multiple Choice

A startling noise will always cause the human eye to blink.If one has learned to associate a blue light with a startling noise, the resulting blue-light-elicited eye blink is known as

• A)an unconditioned stimulus.
• B)a conditioned response.
• C)an unconditioned response.
• D)a conditioned stimulus.

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Definitions:

Symbolic Thinking

The ability to use symbols, words, or objects to represent something that is not physically present.

Preoperational Child

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development describing children aged 2 to 7, characterized by the development of language and symbolic thought but limited in logical reasoning.

Conservation

In cognitive psychology, the principle that properties of substances such as weight and mass remain the same (are conserved) when superficial characteristics such as their shapes or arrangement are changed.

Irreversibility

A cognitive concept where an individual does not understand that actions can be reversed to return to the original state.