On the First Floor of Your Dormitory Are Two Vending

question 158

Multiple Choice

On the first floor of your dormitory are two vending machines. The one on the left always works; the one on the right is usually broken. You therefore put your money only in the machine on the left. This illustrates which aspect of operant conditioning?

• A) stimulus generalization
• B) discrimination
• C) belongingness
• D) shaping

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Definitions:

Independent

Not influenced by or contingent on something else; in statistics, two events are independent if the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of the other.

Organic Product

A chemical compound or substance that has been synthesized through an organic reaction, which can include a wide variety of chemical species.

Reaction

A process in which one or more substances, the reactants, are converted to one or more different substances, the products, via a chemical change.

Dilute Acid

An acid solution that has a low concentration of hydrogen ions compared to its amount of solvent, typically water.