Pigeon Study a Pigeon Is Confronted with Two Disks, One

question 17

Multiple Choice

Pigeon Study A pigeon is confronted with two disks, one green, the other red.The bird receives food on a VI 20"
Schedule when it pecks the green disk, and on a VI 10" schedule when it pecks the red one.
Refer to Pigeon Study.You predict that the bird will peck .

• A)one disk about as often as at the other
• B)the green disk almost exclusively
• C)the green disk about twice as often as the red disk
• D)the red disk about twice as often as the green disk

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Definitions:

Correct Sequence

The proper or accurate order in which a series of events, actions, or things follow each other.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies used unconsciously by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

Repression

In psychoanalytic theory, the process of unconsciously excluding thoughts, feelings, or desires from consciousness, often because they are considered unacceptable.

Conscious Awareness

The state of being mentally alert and having an active awareness of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and surroundings.