Consider Degas' Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper

question 16

Essay

Consider Degas' Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper. Discuss the artist's use of the drawing medium, as well as the use of line and compositional balance in this work.

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Definitions:

Neutral Stimulus

A stimulus that initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention.

Classical Conditioning

A reinforcement process where two stimuli are regularly conjoined; the response that is initially elicited by the second stimulus is later elicited by the first stimulus singularly.

Unconditioned Response

Unconditioned response is a naturally occurring reaction to an unconditioned stimulus without the need for prior learning.

Neutral Stimulus

A stimulus that initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention, until it is associated with an unconditioned stimulus.