A Study Presented Participants with a Variety of Pokemon Characters

question 77

Multiple Choice

A study presented participants with a variety of Pokemon characters and asked them to respond to a "target" character. Some other characters were consistently paired with either positive words or pictures or with negative words or pictures. The results of this study show that

• A) attitudes cannot be formed through classical conditioning.
• B) only positive attitudes can be formed through classical conditioning.
• C) attitudes can be classically conditioned, but only if the participants realize that words or images have been consistently paired with objects.
• D) attitudes can be classically conditioned, even if the participants do not realize that words or images have been consistently paired with objects.

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Definitions:

Instinctual Behavior

Behaviors that are innate and driven by genetic coding, often performed in response to certain stimuli without prior learning.

Negative Reinforcement

A process in behavior modification where the removal of an unfavorable outcome or stimulus strengthens a behavior, encouraging its repetition.

Instinctive Drift

The phenomenon where an animal's learned behavior reverts to its innate behaviors, overriding conditioned responses.

Behavior Modification

A psychological treatment method that alters undesirable behaviors through rewards, punishments, or other strategies.