A Group of People Has Learned to Blink Their Eyes

question 212

Multiple Choice

A group of people has learned to blink their eyes whenever they see a flashing blue light, because for the last hour that flashing blue light has always been followed by a puff of air to their eyes. If we want to test for the possibility of stimulus generalization, what procedure should we follow?

• A) Present the flashing blue light without the puff of air.
• B) Present the puff of air without the flashing blue light.
• C) Present a flashing green light.
• D) Produce extinction, then wait and test response to the flashing blue light.

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Definitions:

Skewed Histogram

A graphical representation of data that is not symmetrical and leans towards one side, indicating a lack of normal distribution.

Tail

The extreme end or the farthest part from the mean in a distribution, often referred to in discussions of outliers and probabilities.

Modal Class

The category or class interval in a dataset that appears most frequently.

Histogram

A graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data, often used to visualize the frequency of data within bins.