You Decide That You Are Going to Condition Your Dog

question 324

Multiple Choice

You decide that you are going to condition your dog to salivate to the sound of a metronome. You give the dog 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 the dog 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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