In a Series of Conditioning Experiments, a Psychologist Discovered That

question 58

Multiple Choice

In a series of conditioning experiments, a psychologist discovered that a rat readily made an association between the taste of flavored water and illness, but did not make an association between the taste of flavored water and a painful shock. The phenomenon called _____ best explains this example.

• A) latent learning
• B) stimulus discrimination
• C) biological preparedness
• D) instinctive drift

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Definitions:

Population Average

The mean value of a characteristic within an entire population.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used to estimate the accuracy of a sample mean compared to the population mean.

Sample Mean

The average of all observed values in a sample from a population.

Level of Significance

A statistical measure that determines the threshold at which a hypothesis test results in a rejection of the null hypothesis.