Ivan Pavlov has been credited with the initial discovery of:

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1. Ivan Pavlov has been credited with the initial discovery of:

   A. operant conditioning
   B. reinforcement
   C. classical conditioning
   D. vicarious conditioning

2. Ivan Pavlov was a:

   A. Psychologist
   B. Physiologist
   C. Physicist
   D. Psychiatrist

3. Pavlov’s initial discovery of what is now called classical conditioning emerged from his earlier studies of __________________?

   A. mating behavior in dogs
   B. operant behaviors in dogs
   C. digestive reflexes in dogs
   D. neurological damage in dogs

4. Who has been credited as the first developer of first intelligence test and made important contributions to our understanding of the thought process?

   A. William James
   B. Alfred Binet
   C. William McDougall
   D. J.B. Watson

5. Who is credited for setting up the first psychological laboratory in United States?

   A. Wilhelm Wundt
   B. Charles Darwin
   C. J. B. Watson
   D. William James

6. _____________ is credited with first inferring the existence of synapses?

   A. Johannes Muller
   B. Franz Gall
   C. William James
   D. Charles Sherrington

7. In Pavlov’s experiment the dog’s food powder served as a (n):

   A. Conditioned stimulus
   B. Unconditional responses
   C. Conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus

8. Which of the following statements about Pavlov’s dogs is FALSE?

   A. Pavlov’s standard procedure, involved the following: a dog was given access to food, and each presentation was accompanied (usually slightly preceded by the occurrence of a neutral event, such as a flashing light
   B. After several training trials (pairings of light and food), the dog would salivate at the flash of light, before any food had appeared
   C. Salivation at the presentation of food is called a conditioned response
   D. The event that evokes the conditioned response is referred to as a conditioned stimulus

9. Consider this sequence: (1) food, (2) salivation with food (3) light with food, (4) salivation with light. This procedure for presenting stimuli and observing responses with dogs is based on Pavlov’s experiments, and represents which sequence of classical conditioning?

   A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
   E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus

10. In Pavlov’s experiments with dogs, the bell (prior to conditioning) was the:

    A. neutral stimulus
    B. unconditioned stimulus
    C. conditioned stimulus
    D. unconditioned response