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EPPP Psychology

Category - Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior

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Classical conditioning focuses on responses that are automatic, rather than learned. If you feed your dog every day at 9 am and he starts to stare at his food bowl around 9 am before you’ve fed him, what kind of conditioning has occurred?
  1. Delay conditioning
  2. Temporal conditioning
  3. Trace conditioning
  4. Backward conditioning
Explanation
Answer: B - Temporal conditioning is the type of conditioning that occurs when an unconditioned stimulus is consistently presented at the same time. Food is an unconditioned stimulus (it elicits an automatic, rather than learned, response) and time acts as a conditioned stimulus. The dog is conditioned to believe he will receive food at a particular time, so he anticipates it.
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