Lecture 8 - more classical conditioning

Question 1

Siegel - morphine intolerance

Answer 1

NS - sight of needle
US - Pain relief
UR - compensatory effects opposing pain relief

CS - sight of stimuli associated with taking morphine
CR - Compensatory reactions opposing pain relief

Question 2

Siegel (1982) Rats and heroin

Answer 2

• Rats injected with heroin or placebo for 30 days
• one group received heroin in distinctive room and placebo in colony room
• second group had this the other way around
• third group had no heroin injections

-final test day- high does of heroin in either same room or different room

Question 3

Siegel results

Answer 3

Highest mortality rate when given in different room (besides control group)

Question 4

Gerevich (2005)

Answer 4

Man took heroin in a different room and then died, despite having taken the same amount as the previous day

Question 5

Garcia and Koelling (1966) Taste aversion

Answer 5

taste and illness = can be easily learnt, as can audiovisual signal and shock

BUT taste -> shock and audiovisual signal -> illness not learnt as well