You Decide That You Are Going to Condition Your Dog

question 101

Multiple Choice

You decide that you are going to condition your dog to salivate to the sound of a metronome. You sound the metronome and then several minutes later you give the dog a biscuit. 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 after the animal ate the biscuit.
• C) you should have had an even longer interval between the metronome and the biscuit.
• D) the biscuit was given too long after the sound of the metronome.
• E) the metronome was not loud enough to be heard by the dog.

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