Question

An experimenter plans to condition a dog to salivate to a light by pairing the light with food. The dog will learn to salivate to the light most quickly if the experimenter presents the light __________. Group of answer choices five seconds before the food one second after the food at precisely the same time as the food half a second before the food

Answer 1

a half second before the food

Step-by-step explanation:

Classical conditioning: In psychology, the classical conditioning theory was proposed by Ivan Pavlov. It is described as a learning process whereby a naturally occurring stimulus is being paired with a neutral stimulus to give rise to a learned response.

In the question above, the experimenter is using the classical conditioning technique to make the dog salivate in response to the light after pairing it with food. Therefore, retrieval occurs the most just after the learning procedure and that is why the dog will learn more when the light is being presented just before the food.