Question

When Rosalie falls asleep at a park next to an elementary school, the ringing bell wakes her up. She immediately jumps to her feet and starts to pack up her bag because she has been conditioned to think the ringing bell signifies the end of class and the need to go somewhere else. When Rosalie was little, before ever attending school, the sound of a bell was a

Question 14 options:
a)
conditioned stimulus.
b)
neutral stimulus.
c)
unconditioned stimulus.
d)
neutral response

Answer 1

Before attending school, the ringing bell was a neutral stimulus for Rosalie, as it did not elicit a response. It later became a conditioned stimulus after being paired with the end of class. This is a similar process to Pavlov's classical conditioning experiments with dogs.

Step-by-step explanation:

When Rosalie falls asleep in a park next to an elementary school and is woken up by a ringing bell, which causes her to immediately jump to her feet and pack up her bag due to conditioning, the ringing bell was originally a neutral stimulus. Before she ever attended school, the sound of the bell did not produce a response in her. Through her experiences in school, where the ringing bell was paired with the end of class—a situation prompting her to go somewhere else—the bell became a conditioned stimulus and her response to move became the conditioned response. This process is akin to the famous Pavlov's experiments with dogs, where a neutral stimulus (a bell) became a conditioned stimulus after being consistently paired with an unconditioned stimulus (food), resulting in a conditioned response (salivation).