Question

After he was spanked on several occasions for spilling his milk at a restaurant, colin became afraid to go to the restaurant. in this case, spanking was a(n) ________ for colin's fear. question 4 options:

Answer 1

Spankings should only be administered if the child does something on purpose after being told not to. And it shouldn't be the first thing to do. It's a last resort punishment after explaining what they did was wrong. And the sentence was unclear, does he KEEP spilling his milk at the restaurant or does the parent KEEP spanking him every time they go there because of the one incident?

Answer 2

in this case,spanking was an unconditioned stimulus for colin's fear.
unconditioned stimulus refers to the type of situation that naturally trigger a response without having to be learn (because it triggers something biological rather than environmental such as physical pain, the feeling of hunger, reflexive respinse, etc)