Blough's Study Using Two Different Fixed-Ratio Schedules to Reward Pigeons

question 94

Multiple Choice

Blough's study using two different fixed-ratio schedules to reward pigeons for pecking at lights below or above 597nm demonstrated the operation of _________ and __________.

• A)sensory preconditioning;discrete-component networks
• B)the error-correction mechanism of the Rescorla-Wagner model;discrete-component networks
• C)the shared-elements mechanism;the error-correction mechanism of the Rescorla-Wagner model
• D)the shared-elements mechanism;sensory preconditioning

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