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JGIBBSON · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

As Ronnie hears a song on the radio, she feels stressed: her heart races, her hands become clammy, and her breathing becomes rapid. The song is familiar because it was very popular at a time when her parents were going through a divorce that caused Ronnie intense anxiety. In this scenario, identify the following in the same respective order: the conditioned stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response, and the unconditioned response.

a. parents fighting; song; anxiety toward parents fighting; anxiety toward song
b. parents fighting; anxiety toward parents fighting; song; anxiety toward song
c. song; parents fighting; anxiety toward song; anxiety toward parents fighting
d. song; anxiety toward song; parents fighting; anxiety toward parents fighting

Question 2

Dr. Graham exposes rats to a vanilla scent prior to receiving a food pellet in the left corner of their cage, but provides no food after exposure to a lemon scent. After several trials, upon smelling a vanilla scent, the rats wait at the far left corner of the cage regardless of whether a food pellet is present. However, they do not wait in the far left corner when exposed to the lemon scent. What is the unconditioned stimulus in the experiment?

a. vanilla scent
b. food pellet
c. left corner of cage
d. lemon scent