"He Could Mess Up a Rainstorm" and "He Couldn't Hit

question 53

True/False

"He could mess up a rainstorm" and "He couldn't hit the ground if he fell" are examples of colloquial language.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to produce a conditioned response.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with another stimulus.

Extinction

In the field of psychology, the slow reduction and eventual vanishing of a learned response when the previously associated conditioned stimulus is not presented together with the unconditioned stimulus anymore.

Classical Conditioning

An associative learning framework in which a response initially evoked by a second stimulus becomes elicited by the first stimulus alone due to repeated pairings of the stimuli.