A Pigeon Is Consistently Reinforced with Food for Pecking a Key

question 89

Multiple Choice

A pigeon is consistently reinforced with food for pecking a key after seeing an image of a human face,but not reinforced for pecking after seeing other images.By signaling that a pecking response will be reinforced,the image of a human face is a(n)

• A) unconditioned stimulus.
• B) partial reinforcement.
• C) discriminative stimulus.
• D) primary reinforcer.

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