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191) Rodney is an alcoholic, and has been taken to his doctor as part of an intervention program. The doctor puts Rodney on a medication called Antabuse, which causes a nauseous and painful reaction when alcohol is consumed. Rodney doesn’t believe this, and continues to consume alcohol, only to get violently sick every time he does. Pretty soon, the sight of alcohol makes him feel queasy. What type of conditioning is being used to help treat Rodney’s alcoholism? a. Operant conditioning b. Aversive conditioning c. Punishment d. Negative reinforcement 192) Which of the following is reflective of Seligman’s research on conditioned taste aversion? a. Repeated pairings of the CS with the UCS are needed to produce a taste aversion. b. Once a taste aversion has been conditioned it is relatively easily to extinguish this taste aversion. c. If a taste aversion to mayonnaise has emerged, it is likely that an aversion to other creamy sauces will emerge. d. Contrary to most classically conditioned reactions, only one pairing of the CS with the UCS is needed to produce a taste aversion. 193) Last month Walter became sick after eating two chili dogs, so he no longer likes chili dogs. Walter has experienced a. blocking. b. conditioned taste-aversion. c. operant taste conditioning. d. noncontingent conditioning. 194) What is likely to happen to rats that drink a saccharin solution and are then shocked? a. They will develop an aversion to saccharin. b. They will refuse to drink any water and die. c. They will not develop an aversion to saccharin solutions. d. They will die as a result of the shocks they received in the research. 195) Your parakeet eats some cooked spaghetti. Later, the parakeet gets ill. What would the research on biological preparedness predict? a. The parakeet will probably not eat shell macaroni because it smells similar to spaghetti. b. The parakeet will probably not eat shell macaroni because it tastes similar to spaghetti. c. The parakeet will probably not eat linguini noodles because they are long and thin and look similar to spaghetti. d. The parakeet will eat spaghetti again. 196) Which learning theorist is responsible for the discovery of biological influences on conditioned taste aversions? a. Seligman b. Garcia c. Skinner d. Watson 197) An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be a. chemotherapy patients losing their appetites for food served around the same time they had their treatments. b. farmers leaving out sheep meat laced with a nauseating substance for coyotes to find in hopes of teaching them not to eat sheep. c. Both of these are examples of taste aversions. d. Neither of these are examples of conditioned taste aversions. 198) A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the research of _____________ to accomplish this. a. Skinner b. Bandura c. Tolman d. Garcia 199) A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the principle of _____________ to accomplish this. a. observational learning b. latent learning c. instrumental conditioning d. classical conditioning 200) Which of the following represents the concept of equipotentiality? a. After exposure to X-rays, rats develop an aversion to red lights. b. After exposure to X-rays, rats develop an aversion to crackers. c. After exposure to X-rays, rats develop an aversion to both crackers and red lights. d. After exposure to X-rays, rats develop an aversion to food after multiple pairings of the CS with UCS.