Which statement best sums up the role of stimulus discrimination and stimulus control in operant conditioning??
a. ?People will only learn to control the behavior of others.
b. ?People attempt to control their own behavior.
c. ?People tend to be biased toward certain types of stimuli.
d. ?People can learn to distinguish the situations in which a certain behavior will be rewarded.
ANSWER:
d
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