response summation refers to
a. the combination (summation) of the response strengths of an explicitly excitatory stimulus (the bell) and an explicitly inhibitory stimulus (the tone) in a single trial (Stage 2).
b. the growing value of the movement ratio on both Type A and Type C trials in Stage 1.
c. the growing value of CS response strength on Type A and Type C trials in Stage 1.
d. the fact that the sum of the movement ratios on the two trials in Stage 2 was about equal to the movement ratios on both Type A and Type C trials in Stage 1.
a. the combination (summation) of the response strengths of an explicitly excitatory stimulus (the bell) and an explicitly inhibitory stimulus (the tone) in a single trial (Stage 2).
Answer feedback: As one of the methods devised by Pavlov for the study of inhibitory conditioning, response summation refers to the compounding of CSs with excitatory and inhibitory strengths in order to determine how the latter subtracts from (reduces) the former.
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