The Fact That There Is Research Demonstrating That Other Animals

question 88

Multiple Choice

The fact that there is research demonstrating that other animals experience dissonance-and that it has a biological basis-suggests that cognitive dissonance may have (in part) a(n) ________ explanation.

• A) cultural
• B) personality
• C) ethnographic
• D) evolutionary

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Definitions:

Primary Reinforcer

A stimulus that is naturally rewarding and satisfies a basic biological need, such as food or water.

Stimulus Generalization

The process by which a response that has been learned to one stimulus is elicited by a different, but similar, stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus in classical conditioning.