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EPPP Psychology

Category - Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior

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In Pavlov’s classical conditioning dog experiment, he paired a neutral stimulus (a tone) with an unconditioned stimulus (meat) repeatedly until the neutral stimulus became a conditioned stimulus (the dog learned to salivate upon hearing the tone). He then paired the tone with a new neutral stimulus, such as a flash of light, repeatedly, until the learned response was elicited from the dog upon exposure to the flash of light. What is this known as?
  1. Third order conditioning
  2. Higher order conditioning
  3. Backward conditioning
  4. Multiple stimulus conditioning
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Answer: B - Pairing a conditioned stimulus with a new neutral stimulus until the latter also becomes a conditioned stimulus is known as higher order conditioning. In this case, pairing the flash of light with the tone is second order conditioning (the first conditioned response was to the tone, the second is to the light). Third order conditioning could be achieved by pairing a new stimulus with the light. It is believed that conditioning beyond third level is not possible.
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