The Process Through Which a Response Is Taught by Rewarding

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Multiple Choice

The process through which a response is taught by rewarding successive approximations to the final desired response is called

• A)extinction.
• B)fading.
• C)shaping.
• D)secondary transfer.

Explain the components and significance of emotional intelligence.

Understand the concept of cognitive dissonance and its impact on behavior.

Describe how attitudes are formed and their components.

Identify the major categories of emotions and their specific examples.

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Definitions:

Stimulant

A substance that increases physiological or nervous activity in the body.

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different stimuli, even if they are similar, based on learned responses.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening of a conditioned response when the reinforcement is no longer provided.

Stimulus Generalization

A psychological phenomenon in which a response that has been conditioned for one stimulus is evoked by another, similar stimulus.