1.  Choose a situation from your area of professional interest that is likely to involve a classical conditioning effect. Diagram and label the following components:  Conditioned Stimulus, Unconditioned Stimulus, Conditioned Response, Unconditioned Response, Conditioned Reflex, Unconditioned Reflex.

2. Describe 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?

3. Explain the "renewal effect." Describe a situation from your area of professional interest where this effect may be a problem.

4. Rescorla (1988) points to work by himself and by Kamin as changing the interpretation of Classical Conditioning. What was done? What was found? How did these results change our view of Classical Conditioning?

5. Choose a situation from your area of professional interest in which you want to produce a classical conditioning effect. Describe a potential UCS from the viewpoint of Pavlov and Kamin. Explain why each would choose that event.

6. Choose a situation from your area of professional interest in which you want to produce a classical conditioning effect. Describe how you would make one stimulus a strong CS and another a weak CS (or CS-) according to a contingency analysis vs. a contiguity analysis?

7. 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?

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