We Turn to Books for Certainty and Truth About the World

question 4

Multiple Choice

We turn to books for certainty and truth about the world in which we live and the ones about which we want to know specifically because books are

• A) agents of social and cultural change.
• B) important cultural repositories.
• C) sources of personal development.
• D) sources of entertainment and escape.

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Definitions:

Generalization Gradient

A concept in psychology and behavioral science describing the decrease in response strength with increasing difference from the original conditioned stimulus.

Discrimination Learning

The process of learning to respond differently to various stimuli, distinguishing between those that are rewarded and those that are not.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was originally conditioned.

Second-order Conditioning

A form of learning where a stimulus that initially had no significance becomes conditioned as a result of being paired with another stimulus that already induces a conditioned response.