A Young Child Has Learned to Associate the Sight of a Nurse's

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Multiple Choice

A young child has learned to associate the sight of a nurse's white uniform with the fear and pain of getting an injection. Using Pavlov's terminology, when the white uniform elicits a fear response, it would be termed a(n) :

• A)unconditioned stimulus (UCS).
• B)unconditioned response (UCR).
• C)conditioned stimulus (CS).
• D)conditioned response (CR).

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A pedagogical strategy that involves pairing two stimuli together repeatedly; a reaction, once caused by the second stimulus, eventually is caused by the first stimulus only.

Cognitive Perspective

The Cognitive Perspective is a psychological approach that emphasizes mental processes, such as perception, memory, and problem-solving, as fundamental to understanding behavior.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit similar responses.

Rescorla

Robert Rescorla, a psychologist best known for his work with Allan Wagner on the Rescorla-Wagner model of classical conditioning, focusing on the predictability of the unconditioned stimulus.