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A Local Educational NGO Is Investigating the Idea of Mandatory

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A local educational NGO is investigating the idea of mandatory intelligence testing for all students. Write a statement to present to the NGO in favour of the proposal. Next, write a statement to present to the NGO against the proposal.


Definitions:

Conditional Discrimination

A situation in which the availability of reinforcement to a particular stimulus depends upon the presence of a second stimulus.

Occasion-Setting Properties

Stimuli or contexts that signal the availability of reinforcement or punishment, influencing how an organism responds to other stimuli.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, begins to elicit a conditioned response.

Lock Conditioning

A method of conditioning where the conditioned stimulus locks the response until the unconditioned stimulus is presented, although this term is not traditionally used in psychological literature, it seems to be a misunderstanding or miscreation.

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