Sometimes a Person Learns to Respond to a Stimulus Only

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Essay

Sometimes a person learns to respond to a stimulus only when a discriminative stimulus is present.What does the discriminative stimulus signal?
-Illustrate the ways in which human behavior is controlled by verbal discriminative stimuli.
-Illustrate the ways in which human behavior is controlled by nonverbal discriminative stimuli.
-What role does this type of learning play in socialization?

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