1. Compare and contrast the use of the term "reflex" by Descartes, Hall, Pavlov, and Skinner.

2.  Imagine you had to teach a class on the classical conditioning effect to undergraduates.  You will need to teach the terminology (unconditioned reflex, etc.)  You will need to teach the use of event-line diagrams.  You will need to teach about the effect and its meaning.

3.  Many people describe classical conditioning as being due to the "pairing" of two stimuli.  What is wrong with this phrasing?  Provide examples. 

4. Describe the extinction procedure. What does it mean to label a stimulus as a CS- ?  Explain the “spontaneous recovery” effect and the “rapid reacquisition” effect. What causes these effects to occur according to Pavlov and according to Bouton?  Who makes the stronger case and why?

5. Pavlov provided an explanation of how to think about and predict classical conditioning effects.  What were his 3 points?

6. What is Pavlovs rule to predict a CS?  Rescorla (1988) points to work by himself as changing the interpretation of how to predict a CS in a classical conditioning effect. What was done? What was found? How did these results change our view of predicting a CS in a practical situation?

7.  What was Pavlov's rule to identify a UCS?  What is Kamin's "blocking effect"? Why is it considered important?  How does it change our approach to identifying the UCS in a conditioning situation, compared to Pavlov?  Explain using a concrete example.

8. Describe a situation from your area of professional interest (or personal interest or just make up a juicy  example) in which you suspect should contain a a strong classical conditioning component. Why would you say it should contain a classical conditioning component?  What would make one stimulus a strong CS+ and another a weak CS+ (or CS-) according to a contiguity analysis vs. a contingency analysis? Be able to explain using an example case or analyze using an example case.

9. Could gambling or shopping or checking a social media account be a strong UCS from the perspectives of Pavlov and Kamin?  Why would it happen (or  not)? 

10. What is the effect of a stimulus on the body?  What is Pavlov's rule to identify the Conditioned Response? Why does he say that?

11.  What is homeostasis?  How does this relate to prediction of responses?

12. What is the effect of a stimulus on the body according to Solomon?  Explain Solomon's Opponent Process theory using a concrete example from daily life. What does it say about how to think about identifying CRs?  

13. Apply Siegel's conditioning model of addiction to the case of coffee drinking. (Assume that caffeine is the UCS.) How does he explain tolerance, craving, and withdrawal effects? What should be the effect of drinking decaffeinated coffee according to Siegel? What should be the effect according to Pavlov?

14. The Rescorla-Wagner model is one of the most famous models in psychology.  It has famous successes and failures of prediction.  Imagine building a model for your thesis/dissertation topic.  Identify two or three variables of importance and how you would represent them mathematically.  What is one effect that you would want to predict to show that your model is working? What is one effect that would show you misanalyzed the problem?   

15. [NARQ:  Not a real question; not the other kind of NARC] Did you ever think you would know this much about classical conditioning?