You Decide That You Are Going to Condition Your Dog

question 121

Multiple Choice

You decide that you are going to condition your dog, Neville, to salivate to the sound of a metronome. You give Neville a biscuit, and then a second later you sound the metronome. You do this several times, but no conditioning seems to occur. This is probably because __________.

• A) the metronome was not a distinctive sound
• B) the metronome should have been sounded before Neville ate the biscuit
• C) you should have had a longer interval between the metronome and the biscuit
• D) Pavlov found that the CS and UCS must be only seconds apart in order to condition salivation

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