Why Did the Experience That Seligman Had with Sauce Béarnaise

question 126

Multiple Choice

Why did the experience that Seligman had with sauce béarnaise change his understanding of conditioning

• A) It suggested that operant conditioning dynamics take precedence over classical conditioning principles when it comes to learning about food. 
• B) It demonstrated that discriminative cues can lose their predictive influence in a fairly short period of time. 
• C) It revealed that a conditioned response could be established even though there was a long delay between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus. 
• D) It suggested that generalization is more pervasive than originally thought.

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