How might a discriminative stimulus be described?

a. An organism learns that a stimulus is similar to another stimulus.
b. An organism knows that responding is only rewarded when a particular stimulus is present.
c. An organism likes the stimulus and works harder to earn the stimulus.
d. An organism automatically responds when the stimulus is presented.


Ans: B

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