CLEP Intro to Psychology Exam Prep

Category - CLEP Intro Psychology

Mr. Wilkes, the school principal, shows his delinquent students who are in detention a slide show of bad behaviors with terrible music playing in the background. Based on this, he is studying _____________.
  1. attitude adjustment therapy
  2. anger therapy
  3. classical conditioning
  4. school brain-washing
Explanation
Answer: C - Mr. Wilkes, the school principal, shows his delinquent students who are in detention a slide show of bad behaviors with terrible music playing in the background. Based on this, he is studying classical conditioning.
Key Takeaway: Classical conditioning was pioneered by Ivan Pavlov and it was the foundation for many studies that trained an organism to respond to conditioned stimuli. Mr. Wilkes is training his students to respond negatively to bad behavior through this pairing exercise.
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