A Researcher Mistakenly Makes the CS in His Experiment Slightly

question 55

Multiple Choice

A researcher mistakenly makes the CS in his experiment slightly resemble a female quail in a study of sexual conditioning in male quail subjects.Due to this mistake, he is likely to find which of the following?

• A)Conditioning proceeds more slowly because of CS pre-exposure effects.
• B)Conditioning proceeds more rapidly because of increased salience.
• C)Conditioning proceeds more slowly because of a lack of difference in biological strength between the CS and US.
• D)There would be little effect because the US usually controls the rate of learning.

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Intervention's Effects

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Confounding Variable

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Causal Relationship

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