Because You Fed Your Dog Table Scraps While Sitting at the Kitchen

question 371

Multiple Choice

Because you fed your dog table scraps while sitting at the kitchen table, your dog began to jump up and beg for scraps whenever you were eating dinner at the kitchen table. Lately, your dog has also begun to jump up and beg for scraps whenever you sit at any table or desk in the house. Your dog is exhibiting

• A)latent learning.
• B)response chaining.
• C)operant stimulus generalization.
• D)operant stimulus discrimination.

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Definitions:

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

A psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, characterized by flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety.

Persistence

The continual recurrence of unwanted memories from long-term storage.

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where older memories interfere with the retrieval of newer memories.

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon where new information interferes with the ability to recall old information.