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HudsonKB16 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

A little boy is allowed to play with a laboratory rat and shows no fear of it. Then, a
scientist makes a scary noise by banging an iron bar whenever the little boy reaches
for the rat.

Soon, the boy begins crying whenever the rat comes near him. In this study,
the boy's fear of the rat is the ______.
a. unconditioned stimulus c. conditioned stimulus
b. unconditioned response d. conditioned response

Question 2

A little boy is allowed to play with a laboratory rat and shows no fear of it. Then, a
scientist makes a scary noise by banging an iron bar whenever the little boy reaches for
the rat.

Soon, the boy begins crying whenever the rat comes near him. In this study, the
scary noise is the ______.
a. unconditioned stimulus c. conditioned stimulus
b. unconditioned response d. conditioned response