The Ability of a Stimulus to Encourage Some Responses and Discourage

question 173

Multiple Choice

The ability of a stimulus to encourage some responses and discourage others is known as

• A) spontaneous recovery.
• B) stimulus generalization.
• C) stimulus discrimination.
• D) stimulus control.

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Definitions:

Population standard deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points in a population, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the population mean.

Sample mean

The average value of the sample set, calculated as the sum of all observations divided by the number of observations.

Population proportion

The ratio of members in a population that have a particular attribute or characteristic, represented as a fraction or percentage of the total.

Standard error of the mean

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the mean, indicating the variability of sample means around the population mean.