A Discriminative Stimulus Is a Stimulus That __________

question 44

Multiple Choice

A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus that __________

• A) provides the organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement.
• B) leads a person to discriminate against one group of people based on ethnicity or race.
• C) cues the person into which schedule of reinforcement is being used in operant conditioning.
• D) Watson used to make Little Albert scared of all fuzzy things.

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