Susan trained her rat to press a bar in a Skinner box in order to get a food pellet. Susan's rat pressed the bar a lot. However, later when Susan ran out of food pellets her rat eventually stopped pressing the bar. What had happened?

a) conditioned aversion
b) satiation
c) extinction
d) withdrawal


c

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a. Newton c. Kepler b. Leibniz d. Galileo

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According to humanistic psychologists, being authentic means

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