The fact that a person answers a phone when it rings illustrates ________.
a. stimulus control
b. stimulus for extinction
c. stimulus discrimination
d. stimulus generalization
Ans: a. stimulus control.
A behavior is said to be under stimulus control when the presence of the discriminative stimulus reliably evokes the behavior. For example, people usually answer the phone when it rings, but they never answer the phone when it is not ringing.
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