If, on Many Occasions, a Dog Is Made to Hear

question 23

Multiple Choice

If, on many occasions, a dog is made to hear the sound of a metronome prior to conditioning, then a standard number of conditioning trials might result in little or no conditioning to the metronome. This is most likely an experiment on

• A) higher-order conditioning.
• B) blocking.
• C) latent inhibition.
• D) occasion setting.

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