A pigeon's behaviour is reinforced for pecking images of Picasso paintings but not for pecking images of Monet paintings. After such training, it correctly pecks pictures of other Cubist artists it has never seen before but does not peck other never-before-seen impressionistic paintings. This example illustrates the behavioural processes of _____; in cognitive terms, each Picasso painting

represents a(n) _____ of a category.

A) positive and negative reinforcement; prototype
B) positive and negative reinforcement; exemplar
C) generalization and discrimination; prototype
D) generalization and discrimination; exemplar


D) generalization and discrimination; exemplar

Psychology

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a. ?Zeke and Zach b. ?Peter and Paul c. ?Tim and Tom d. ?Laverne and Shirley

Psychology

Someone with illness anxiety disorder experiences dramatic and specific symptoms such as blindness that cannot be attributed to physical causes

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Psychology

It is generally agreed that an article by ____ in 1958 marked the transition between artificial intelligence and information-processing psychology.?

a. ?Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver b. ?Allen Newell, J. Shaw, and Herbert Simon c. ?John Searle d. ?Alan Turing

Psychology

Imagine that you are a business executive and you are about to have a meeting with a rival executive whom you know to be a woman

You know nothing else about her, but you imagine that she must be less competitive than your male colleagues—probably more conciliatory. What process are you demonstrating with such thoughts? a. intellectualization b. stereotyping c. differentiation d. pragmatics

Psychology