A child who is a model of behavior when his parents are present, but who becomes uncontrollable when the babysitter arrives, is demonstrating

a. operant stimulus discrimination.
b. the power of delayed reinforcement.
c. classical conditioning.
d. operant stimulus generalization.


ANSWER: a

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