The Sidman Avoidance Procedure

question 100

Multiple Choice

The Sidman avoidance procedure

• A) first conditions an escape response without a CS, then shifts to a Pavlovian conditioning phase of CS + aversive stimulus pairings, and then tests subjects by presenting the CS only in a third phase of training.
• B) involves presenting a successive, overlapping three-stimulus compound avoidance CS (e.g., light  tone  clicking  shock) and measuring which CS is the strongest reinforcer for the avoidance response.
• C) presents an uncued, fixed-duration aversive stimulus (e.g., shock) at regularly occurring or fixed intervals unless a response occurs in the time between the successive scheduled aversive stimulus presentations.
• D) involves classically conditioning a response to an explicit stimulus, then extinguishing that explicit stimulus, and then using that extinguished stimulus as the avoidance CS in the instrumental phase.

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