Chapter 6 Discussion
Every afternoon, you feed your cat canned cat food that you must open with a can opener. One afternoon, before it’s time to feed your cat, you decide to open a can of soup for yourself. All of a sudden, your cat begins to meow at your feet as he hears the sound of the can opener.
Explain this in terms of classical conditioning (only one answer per bullet point):Be as specific as possible.
- What are the two stimuli the cat is associating in this example?
- What is the unconditioned stimulus?
- What is the unconditioned response?
- What is the conditioned stimulus?
- What is the conditioned response?
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