To Test the Meaning of an Occasion Setter in a Serial

question 6

Multiple Choice

To test the meaning of an occasion setter in a serial, feature-negative discrimination, a food-cup entry procedure is used with rats. In the first phase of the study, a buzzer is followed by food, while a buzzer preceded by a flashing light is followed by no food. In a second phase of training, the flashing light alone is paired with food. When the flashing light is again presented with the buzzer, the occasion-setting model predicts that we should see

• A) no food-cup entry.
• B) bursts of food-cup entry intermixed with periods of no responding.
• C) a high sustained rate of food-cup entry.
• D) a low sustained rate of food-cup entry.

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