The Subducting Juan De Fuca Plate Is Only 10- to 15-Million-Years

question 94

True/False

The subducting Juan de Fuca plate is only 10- to 15-million-years old and is warm and buoyant enough to couple with the North American plate as shown by strike-slip faults on the Juan de Fuca plate that also cut the overriding North American plate.

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Discriminative Stimulus

A cue or event that indicates that a particular response will lead to a certain consequence in operant conditioning.

Generalized Stimulus

A stimulus that elicits a response not only to the original stimulus but also to similar stimuli.

Reinforcement

In behavioural psychology, a process by which a stimulus increases the probability of a preceding behaviour being repeated.

Schedule of Reinforcement

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