A pigeon learns to peck at a red disk. It will not peck at an identical disk of any other color. This illustrates the concept of ______
a. extinction c. avoidance training
b. discrimination d. desensitization
b
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What will be an ideal response?
According to Rotter's social learning theory, the anticipation that making a response will lead to reinforcement is called
a. reinforcement value. b. expectancy. c. self-reinforcement. d. identification.
According to the article The Nose Knows about the ability of mothers to detect the scent of their babies, if a psychological instrument measures what it is supposed to measure it is called:
(a) reliable (b) valid (c) standardized (d) correlated
Perception is the ________
a) process by which people take all the sensations they experience at any given moment and interpret them in some meaningful fashion b) action of physical stimuli on receptors leading to sensations c) interpretation of memory based on selective attention d) act of selective attention from sensory storage