An example of stimulus discrimination in classical conditioning is:_______________

Question

A. After an accident with a red car last month, Giorgio gets nervous when he sees a red car, but not when he sees a red truck or van.

 

 

B. Hank thinks all elderly drivers are slow and leave their blinkers on.

 

 

C. Phoung is an aggressive driver, but stops for red lights because she got a ticket for running one several months ago.

 

D. Sung-lee believes that everyone should wear their seat belts because she was hurt in an accident when she wasn't wearing one.

Answer 1

Hi Ryan!

 

Since I have not taken a psychology class in almost 30 years, I an probably not the best person to answer this.  But classical conditioning is the pairing of an "unconditioned stimulus" (a stimulus that naturally produces a reaction) with a "conditioned stimulus" (one that does not naturally bring about that reaction, but that can be conditioned to by a kind of association).  Only one of these answers describes anything like conditioned response -- putting the feeling of one event with a separate stimulus that does not naturally cause it... and then also talks about distinguishing that conditioned stimulus from other similar objects.

 

If you want to talk more about this, including discussing what you think the answer is, just let me know.  I am not an expert in psychology, but I can talk about what I think about this question based on my limited knowledge of classical conditioning.