In Chapter 5 we read about devaluing the US to determine what kind of mental representations are formed during Pavlovian conditioning. What must be devalued in order to determine what happens during operant conditioning?
a. The target behavior
b. The discriminative stimulus
c. The reinforcer
d. The context in which the behavior occurs
Ans: c
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