Respondent Conditioning exercise

Gap-fill exercise

For each gap, enter UCS (for unconditional stimulus), UCR (for unconditional response), CS (for conditional response), or CR (for conditional response).

Once all the gaps are filled, press "Check" to check your answers.

Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
1. Art goes to a meeting in New Orleans and tries some oysters at the oyster bar. He likes the taste and eats too many oyseters (). Soon he becomes very ill with an upset stomach (). Now, even the thought of oysters () makes him nauseous ().

This 1st example relates to drug use by illustrating how even ONE pairing wth a strong physical reaction can produce long-lasting learned reactions to stimuli. Note the learning of EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT/MOTIVATION in the next example:

2. It is summer time. Sarah and Jeremy () are in love. They enjoy being together and are thoroughly relaxed and content () in each other's presence. The hit song that summer is "Buckets of Love" and they hear that song a lot when they are together. At the end of the summer they have to return to their separate colleges, which are quite far apart. That fall, every time Sarah hears the tune "Buckets of Love" () she experiences the same feelings of relaxation and contentment that she felt when she was with Jeremy ().

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