If a Little Boy Can Hear His Mother Moving Around

question 30

Multiple Choice

If a little boy can hear his mother moving around in the kitchen downstairs in the morning, he can be fairly certain that it is time to get up and have his breakfast. The discriminative stimulus in this example is the:

• A) breakfast.
• B) sounds of his mother moving around.
• C) little boy.
• D) kitchen.

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Definitions:

Negative Punishment

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Bandura

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Freud

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Thorndike

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