Associating a Conditioned Stimulus with a New Neutral Stimulus Can

question 72

Multiple Choice

Associating a conditioned stimulus with a new neutral stimulus can create a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus. This best illustrates

• A) extinction.
• B) spontaneous recovery.
• C) intermittent reinforcement.
• D) higher-order conditioning.

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Definitions:

Interval

A range of values between two points, often used in statistics to describe the confidence levels of estimations or predictions.

Chi-Squared Distributed

Describes a statistical distribution where the sum of the squares of a number of independent standard normal random variables is chi-squared.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis of statistical parameters.

Randomized Block Experiment

An experimental design that groups participants into blocks based on certain characteristics before randomly assigning them to treatments, improving the experiment's accuracy by reducing variance.