What Is the Term Used to Refer to the Conversion

question 58

Multiple Choice

What is the term used to refer to the conversion of once-fruitful land into desert?

• A) desertification
• B) deforestation
• C) second-growth forest conversion
• D) old-growth forest conversion

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Definitions:

US Presented

Typically means how specific concepts, ideas, or findings are introduced or demonstrated in the United States.

CS

In the context of classical conditioning, CS stands for Conditioned Stimulus, which is a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Second-order Conditioning

This is a process in which a stimulus that's already linked to a response becomes associated with another, new stimulus, creating a second conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process by which a previously reinforced behavior decreases in frequency and eventually ceases, often because the reinforcement is no longer provided.