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Hi henryprofessor,

can you answer at least three posted questions? thank you

• 1. Some recent work suggests that not all CS-alone trials will contribute to extinction. What cautions for clinicians and counselors are implicit in these
  findings?
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• 2. Lots of people think that latent inhibition strategies will allow the clinical psychology and counseling fields to truly enter the world of prevention. What do you think about this?
• 3. Work through this puzzle about Peg.
• Peg is afraid to drive. She has had many auto accidents and
  driving makes her nervous. However, she still drives, though nervously. Today
  she and a brand new co-worker need to get to a meeting at a distant location.
  The most efficient way to get there is to drive. She decides she will drive her
  car. Her new co-worker asks her for a ride. Reluctantly, Peg says ‘yes’. Just as
  they start out, as bad luck would have it, they have a car accident,
  contributing to Peg’s fear of driving. Do you expect Peg to have some new,
  unpleasant reaction to her new co-worker as well? Why or why not? Use classical
  conditioning principles to justify your answer.

• 4. Work through this puzzle about Josh.
• Josh ate
  something new at the cafeteria one day last month. Seeing navy bean soup on the
  menu, he decided to try it and afterward said “That’s OK”. The next
  day, and for the next several days he was sick with the flu. Today, in the
  cafeteria with Alice , he sees navy bean soup on the menu and says “Ugh, I
  hate that stuff”.
  (a) Using classical conditioning, generate a
  hypothesis for why Josh now dislikes navy bean soup?
  (b) To what stimulus arrangement between navy
  been soup and the flu has Josh been exposed?
  (c) Tim also ate navy bean soup when Josh did
  and the next day he got sick too (no, the soup was not contaminated), but Tim
  does not say he hates the soup today. What might account (in terms of classical
  conditioning principles) for the difference between Tim’s and Josh’s reaction
  to navy bean soup.

• 5. Work through this puzzle about Sally.
• Sally has recently moved to an area where wind storms are
  common. They are new to her as wind storms were not common where she previously
  lived. However, she is not afraid of them. There was a big wind storm yesterday
  and the power in Sally’s house went out. At one point, she took a flashlight
  and went down to the basement to check on things. In the protected staircase
  she could only hear the dim sound of the wind. Otherwise, things were quiet.
  Suddenly, she heard the squeak of a mouse which, under the circumstances,
  seemed quite loud. In the dark she couldn’t see that broken step she’d been
  meaning to fix. She tripped and fell, and actually hurt herself quite badly.
  After this, she noticed a fear of mice.

  (a) Using principles about factors that
  influence the effectiveness of respondent conditioning, generate at lease one
  hypothesis about why Sally is now afraid of mice and not wind storms.

  (b) What would need to happen for Sally to
  overcome her fear of mice?

• 6.Work
  through this puzzle about Max and Tim.
• Max just
  took a new job. His new job is on the 48th floor of a large office building.
  Needless to say, he must take the elevator to get to his office. This is not
  unusual for Max, as his previous job was located on the 31st floor of an office
  building and he always took the elevator to get to his office there as well. On
  the day he started his new job, Tim started a job in the office next door.
  Prior to taking this job, Tim lived and worked only in a town where there are
  short buildings and no elevators. On the morning of their first day of work,
  Max and Tim saw each other in the lobby of their office building and got on the
  elevator together. Unfortunately, there was a minor elevator accident. The
  elevator lurched a bit and both Max and Tim were bumped, mildly against the
  walls of the elevator.

  (a) Who do you think is more likely to leave
  the situation with some fear of elevators?

  (b) What principle describing a factor that
  influences the effectiveness of respondent conditioning likely “protected” one
  of them from developing a fear?

• 7. Do you think you’ve observed an example of sensory preconditioning?
• 8. Give an example, real or fictional, of latent inhibition.
• 9. Do you think you’ve encountered a personal experience with overshadowing?