Pouncer, a hunting dog, gets excited at any opportunity to go hunting. Pouncer's handlers always wear bright orange clothes while hunting for safety reasons
However, they have noticed recently that a red sweatshirt that one of them wears often makes Pouncer get excited and bark. Pouncer's actions are likely a result of __________
a) negative reinforcement.
b) discriminated learning.
c) generalization.
d) feedback.
c
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a. psychodynamic b. behavioral c. humanistic d. social learning
Compare and contrast the procedures and outcomes of extinction and punishment
What will be an ideal response?
The apparent motion of a fixed object is known as
(a) progress (b) parallax (c) syntax (d) Copernicus' Folly
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a. decay; interference; amnesia b. semantic; episodic; procedural memory c. sensory; short-term memory; long-term memory d. encoding; storage; retrieval