About 4 Percent of the Population Has Amusia, Meaning That

question 135

Multiple Choice

About 4 percent of the population has amusia, meaning that they:

• A)cannot speak.
• B)are tone deaf.
• C)experience sounds as colors.
• D)have trouble understanding language.

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Definitions:

Reinforcement

Reinforcement is a principle in behavioral psychology where the likelihood of a behavior is increased by following it with a positive stimulus or removing a negative one.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked not only by the conditioned stimulus but also by stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus.

Gradual Acquisition

The slow and incremental process of obtaining or developing skills, knowledge, or abilities over time.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response. In biology, the permanent loss of a species.