Question

A researcher is testing young children to see if they can learn to associate a red circle with an event that the child enjoys. She sets up an experiment where a toy bear dances. The infants predictably love the toy bear and stare at it when it makes noise and dances. She then trains the child by showing a big red circle on a screen in front of the child and, immediately after that, the bear appears and dances off to the side. The bear is only visible right after the red circle appears and the child must turn his or her head to see the bear.
In this study, the unconditioned stimulus is ____________ baby does not turn head baby turns head dancing bear red circle , the unconditioned response is the __________ dancing bear baby does not turn head red circle baby turns head , the conditioned stimulus is the _________ dancing bear baby turns head baby does not turn head red circle , and the conditioned response is the ______ baby does not turn head red circle dancing bear baby turns head . The neutral stimulus is the _______ baby turns head dancing bear red circle baby does not turn head and the response to the neutral stimulus is the 6 _______

Answer 1

Answer: unconditioned stimulus = dancing bear

unconditioned response = baby turns head

conditioned stimulus = red circle

conditioned response = baby turns head

neutral stimulus = red circle

response to neutral stimulus = baby does not turn head

Explanation:

The unconditioned stimulus is the stimulus that occurs naturally without any prior learning.

The unconditioned response refers to an unlearned response which happens naturally and which occurs due to the unconditioned stimulus.

The conditioned stimulus is the stimulus that occurs due to prior learning and the conditioned response follows.

Based on the above definition, the answers to the questions will be:

• unconditioned stimulus = dancing bear

• unconditioned response = baby turns head

• conditioned stimulus = red circle

• conditioned response = baby turns head

• neutral stimulus = red circle

• response to neutral stimulus = baby does not turn head