Mr.Anxiety John, "Mr.Anxiety," finally musters up the courage to ask the beautiful and popular Carole to go to the
Movies.She finds the idea so ridiculous that she laughs out loud the instant he has gotten the question
Out)John's face turns the color of a steamed lobster.
Refer to Mr.Anxiety.Oafish Bill (John's twin brother) has heard nothing of John's unfortunate encounter with Carole, and he decides to ask her out.Just as he approaches her she bursts into laughter, apparently in response to a joke someone just told.Bill immediately pops the question and she politely declines, having decided to join a convent at the end of the semester.A week later Bill bumps into Carole on campus but feels no particular embarrassment.The pairing of Bill's request for a date and Carole's laughter is most likely an example of .
A)trace conditioning
B)delayed conditioning
C)simultaneous conditioning
D)backward conditioning

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The pairing of Bill's request for a date and Carole's laughter is an example of backward conditioning since the laughter from the joke which Bill was not a part of served as the conditioned stimulus (CS) that elicited a conditioned response (CR) of laughter from Carole when Bill asked her out. This resulted in a negative outcome (her polite refusal) which weakened the association between the CS (her laughter) and the CR (Bill asking her out).

MrAnxiety John, "Mr