Activity for the book My Psychology

Show Me More: 6.1 Classical Conditioning

View the Show Me More video and then answer the questions.

Scientific American

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When an important stimulus is paired with a relatively unimportant stimulus, and the effect of the first “spreads” to the second, this is called .
Which is an accurate statement regarding the early, groundbreaking work of Ivan Pavlov?
Heather is studying the process of learning associations between two different stimuli. She is probably reading about:
Ulric and David were dating for several months, but Ulric ended their relationship. At first David felt crushed and was sad almost all of the time. After going several weeks without seeing Ulric, David began to associate things and places less with his ex-boyfriend, and the sadness began to diminish. Three months after the breakup, David rarely thought about Ulric at all. This demonstrates the process of ,
Which individual, along with one of his students, conducted a study on a subject called “little Albert” in which the ability to produce fear through classical conditioning was demonstrated?