A Discriminative Stimulus

question 17

Multiple Choice

A discriminative stimulus

• A) is a central component of therapies based on classical conditioning.
• B) becomes reinforcing through pairing with the unconditioned stimulus.
• C) serves as a cue that positive reinforcement will occur.
• D) All of these.

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