Elements of Classical Conditioning

You should be able to identify the UCS, UCR, CS and CR in each of these scenarios.

1. To discourage coyotes from attacking their sheep, ranchers fed the coyotes small pieces of mutton tainted with poison that, when ingested, caused the coyotes to experience extreme dizziness and nausea. Later, when the coyotes were placed in the pen with the sheep, the mere smell of the sheep caused the coyotes to run frantically away from their former prey.

2. A passenger on an airplane was feeling very nervous about an important job interview the next morning, and as a result he was uneasy and nervous throughout the flight. Back at home weeks later, he is contemplating a holiday trip. Though he hadn’t previously been afraid to fly, he finds himself suddenly nervous about flying and decided to cancel his plans to visit an out-of-state relative.

3. It’s no secret that people become unhappy when bad weather strikes, but what is surprising is that weather forecasters are consistently blamed for weather over which they obviously have no control. Weather forecasters around the country have been whacked by old ladies with umbrellas, pelted with snowballs, and even threatened with death (e.g., “You’re the one that sent that tornado and tore up my house….I’m going to take your head off,” or “If it snows over Christmas, you won’t live to see New Year’s”) by people who mistakenly infer a causal relationship between the forecaster with subsequent foul weather patterns.