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Hungry! · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

To get her roommate to start cleaning her side of the room, Alisa starts complimenting her on the smallest efforts she makes to keep her side tidy. Alisa then withholds complimenting her roommate until she does more extensive cleaning tasks. This type of strategy is known as ____.

a. shaping
b. stimulus generalization
c. primary reinforcement
d. stimulus discrimination

Question 2

Which statement best sums up the role of stimulus discrimination and stimulus control in operant conditioning?

a. People will only learn to control the behavior of others.
b. People attempt to control their own behavior.
c. People tend to be biased toward certain types of stimuli.
d. People can learn to distinguish the situations in which a certain behavior will be rewarded.