When Listening to Your Professor's Lecture, Hearing the Various Sounds

question 476

Multiple Choice

When listening to your professor's lecture, hearing the various sounds of the professor's words would involve the process of

• A) perception.
• B) sensation.
• C) assimilation.
• D) accommodation.

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Definitions:

Instrumental Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by the behavior's consequences, such as reward or punishment.

Instinctive Drift

The inclination of an animal to return to innate behaviors that disrupt a learned response.

Sensory Adaptation

The adaptation process of sensory receptors becoming duller in response to stimuli that stays the same over time.

Stimulus Generalization

The process by which a response originally elicited by a specific stimulus is elicited by similar stimuli.