Jasmine Quickly Learned That She Needed to Use Different Techniques

question 31

Multiple Choice

Jasmine quickly learned that she needed to use different techniques to calm her second child than those that had worked with her first child. This is an example of:

• A) generalization.
• B) discrimination.
• C) sensory preconditioning.
• D) negative patterning.

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Definitions:

Innate Behavior

Behaviors that are hardwired into an organism's biology and that an organism performs correctly the first time in response to a stimulus, without prior experience or learning.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.

Magnetic Fields

Invisible fields that exert force on objects possessing a magnetic moment, including ferromagnetic materials and moving electric charges.