There Are Many Examples of Training Animals to Assist Humans

question 238

Multiple Choice

There are many examples of training animals to assist humans. Police dogs that are used to locate illegal drugs and pigeons that can peck a signal button when they spot an orange life-jacket in the water both demonstrate application of the principles of
________.

• A) higher-order conditioning
• B) classical conditioning
• C) operant conditioning
• D) observational learning

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