Compensatory Drug Reactions, Such as Those to Injections of Insulin

question 138

Multiple Choice

Compensatory drug reactions, such as those to injections of insulin or heroin, offer the strongest support to which of the following ideas?

• A) The CR is a weak duplicate of the UR.
• B) Extinction is more a suppression of the CR than a forgetting of the conditioning process.
• C) The CS acts as an anticipatory signal for the US.
• D) The conditioned response suppression is a good index of CERs.

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