​If You Receive Exactly the Same Painful Stimulus to Your

question 105

Multiple Choice

​If you receive exactly the same painful stimulus to your hand or your back, which will feel more pain, and why?

• A) ​Your back, because it has larger surface area
• B) ​Your hand, because it has much thinner skin
• C) ​Your back, because it has more pain receptors
• D) ​Your hand, because it has more pain receptors

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Definitions:

Reinforcement Given

In behavioral psychology, a stimulus or reward that follows a behavior and increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Variable Time Interval

A scheduling method in operant conditioning where reinforcements are given after varying time intervals.

Variable Number

A quantity or element that may vary or change within the context of a situation or experiment.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to respond differently to similar stimuli based on their differences, significant in the context of conditioning.