I Train a Rat to Discriminate Between a Circle and an Octagon.Every

question 61

Multiple Choice

I train a rat to discriminate between a circle and an octagon.Every time the rat presses the octagon switch,I give it a piece of cheese.Soon the rat chooses the octagon on every trial.Then I give the rat a choice between the original octagon and a significantly larger octagon.The rat then chooses the larger octagon.This is an example of ______.

• A)occasion-setting stimuli
• B)peak shift
• C)conditioned excitation
• D)an interoceptive stimulus

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