Sometimes a Person Learns to Respond to a Stimulus Only

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Essay

Sometimes a person learns to respond to a stimulus only when a discriminative stimulus is present. What does the discriminative stimulus signal? Illustrate the ways in which human behaviour is controlled by verbal discriminative stimuli. Illustrate the ways in which human behaviour is controlled by nonverbal discriminative stimuli. What role does this type of learning play in socialization?

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Definitions:

Equity Maintenance

Efforts or mechanisms aimed at preserving fairness and equality in relationships, groups, or societal distributions of resources.

Equality Matching

A type of reciprocity based on the idea of balance and fairness, where each participant receives equivalent value in a transaction or relationship.

Social Exchange

People often use a form of everyday economics when they weigh up costs and rewards before deciding what to do.

Bicultural Identity

An individual's identification with two cultures and the integration of these cultures into their sense of identity.