You Enter a Completely Dark Room

question 179

Multiple Choice

You enter a completely dark room.At first you see nothing,but as time passes,you can see well enough to avoid bumping into objects and people.You are seeing:

• A) with a lot of cones,but very few rods.
• B) with your cones only.
• C) with a lot of rods and very few cones.
• D) equally with rods and cones.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond only to the specific stimulus conditioned.

Generalization Gradient

Refers to the decrease in response strength as stimuli become less similar to the conditioned stimulus in classical or operant conditioning.

Discriminative Stimulus

A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response will be reinforced, and in the absence of which that response will not be reinforced.