A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus that __________
a) provides the organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement.
b) leads a person to discriminate against one group of people based on ethnicity or race.
c) cues the person into which schedule of reinforcement is being used in operant conditioning.
d) Watson used to make Little Albert scared of all fuzzy things.
a
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A) the first few people who introduced themselves. B) the last few people who introduced themselves. C) the person immediately after you. D) the person immediately before you.
Cross-sectional research by Schaie on the development of intellectual ability in adulthood was carefully controlled to account for cohort effects. This research found that
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