Q 01/05

Following Pavlov's methods, the 'Little Albert' experiment taught a baby to fear which animal?

A) A white rat

B) A black cat

C) A spider

D) A snake

Answer · why

A) A white rat

A white rat: a steel bar was struck behind Albert each time he touched it, and his fear soon spread to a rabbit, a fur coat and a Santa Claus mask.

Q 02/05

Pavlov's laboratory produced which fluid, collected from its dogs, as a remedy for indigestion?

A) Bile

B) Saliva

C) Pancreatic juice

D) Gastric juice

Answer · why

D) Gastric juice

Gastric juice: the dogs kept producing it even though their swallowed food fell out through an opening in the throat and never reached the stomach.

Q 03/05

In which city did Pavlov give his Nobel Prize lecture?

A) Stockholm

B) Oslo

C) Copenhagen

D) Uppsala

Answer · why

A) Stockholm

Stockholm: in the lecture Pavlov recalled that Alfred Nobel himself had sent his laboratory a considerable donation about ten years earlier.

Q 04/05

In Pavlov's lab, when did a buzzer have to sound for a dog to learn that it meant food?

A) Just after the food

B) Just before the food

C) While the dog ate

D) At random times

Answer · why

B) Just before the food

Just before the food: a sound played just after feeding failed to condition the dog, because a signal has to predict food rather than follow it.

Q 05/05

What happened to Pavlov's Nobel Prize money after the Bolsheviks took power?

A) He gave it to hungry colleagues

B) It kept his lab running

C) The state confiscated it

D) He banked it in Sweden

Answer · why

C) The state confiscated it

The state confiscated it, and in the hungry years that followed, some academicians living in his own building starved to death.