A Pigeon Learns to Peck at a Disc Lighted Green

question 167

Multiple Choice

A pigeon learns to peck at a disc lighted green to receive reinforcement, but not at a disc lighted red. This means that, for the pigeon, the colour of the disc is a

• A) reinforcer or nonreinforcer
• B) punisher or nonpunisher
• C) generalisation stimulus
• D) discriminative stimulus

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