Question

Dhanika becomes severely ill with food poisoning after having a slice of Hawaiian pizza at the local restaurant. Now every time she passes by the restaurant she feels her stomach becoming upset. Which of the following correctly identifies the CS, US, UR and CR?

1) CS - Local restaurant; US - Sickness; UR - Bad Hawaiian pizza; CR - Bad Hawaiian pizza
2) CS - Local restaurant; US - Bad Hawaiian pizza; UR - Sickness; CR - Sickness
3) CS - Bad Hawaiian pizza; US - Local restaurant; UR - Sickness; CR - Sickness
4) CS - Sickness; US - Local restaurant; UR - Bad Hawaiian pizza; CR - Bad Hawaiian pizza

Answer 1

The correct identification of classical conditioning elements in Dhanika's case is that the local restaurant is the CS, the bad Hawaiian pizza is the US, sickness is both the UR and the CR.

Step-by-step explanation:

Regarding the question of classical conditioning in the case of Dhanika feeling sick when passing by the restaurant after a bad food poisoning incident with Hawaiian pizza, we need to identify the correct unconditioned stimulus (US), conditioned stimulus (CS), unconditioned response (UR), and conditioned response (CR). The correct identification in this scenario would be the second option, where the CS - Local restaurant; US - Bad Hawaiian pizza; UR - Sickness; CR - Sickness. This is because the initial unconditioned stimulus (the bad Hawaiian pizza) naturally caused the unconditioned response (sickness), and after the association was made, the local restaurant (which didn't initially cause sickness) became the conditioned stimulus, triggering the conditioned response of feeling sick.