You Are Sitting in a Class When Your Professor Holds

question 162

Multiple Choice

You are sitting in a class when your professor holds up a large white feather. We could guess that most people would not really respond in any important way to the feather, because the feather is a(n)

• A) primary reinforcer.
• B) negative punisher.
• C) unconditioned response.
• D) neutral stimulus.
• E) extinct event.

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