Don Is Delighted When He Successfully Conditions His Roommate,Lloyd,to Cringe

question 192

Multiple Choice

 Don is delighted when he successfully conditions his roommate,Lloyd,to cringe at the sound of the squeaky drawer by pairing the squeak with a ping-pong ball to his roommate's head.He decides continue his experiment with classical conditioning and creates another squeaky noise by dragging his chair legs across the floor.At first Lloyd cringes at the new squeak,but with continued "trials" in which the drawer squeak is paired with a ping-pong ball to the head but the chair leg squeak is not,Lloyd stops cringing to the chair leg squeak,illustrating ____. 

• A)habituation
• B)dishabituation
• C)discrimination
• D)generalization

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Definitions:

Assignable Causes

Specific reasons for variations in a process that can be identified and often corrected, unlike random causes that are inherent to the process.

Natural Causes

Reasons or factors that occur in nature and cause events or conditions without human intervention.

Statistical Process Control

The application of statistical methods to monitor and control a process to ensure that it operates at its full potential to produce conforming product.

Acceptance Sampling

A statistical quality control method that inspects a random sample of goods to decide whether the entire lot meets the predetermined standards.