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A dog in a classical conditioning experiment salivates to a continuous buzzer but not to a single bell ring. This is an example of ____.
 
  a. stimulus generalization
  b. partial reinforcement extinction effect
  c. secondary reinforcement
  d. stimulus discrimination

Question 2

Whenever your English teacher gives a quiz, he carries the copies of the quiz into the room in a black box, and you react with anticipation. If he walks into the room with any other color box, you know that it is not a quiz and feel no anticipation. This illustrates the concept of stimulus ____.
 
  a. control
  b. degradation
  c. discrimination
  d. generalization


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
d

Answer to Question 2

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Reply #2 on: Jun 19, 2018
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