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EPPP Psychology

Category - Biological Bases of Behavior

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A cat has learned that he can only get food by pressing a bar when the red light is on. The cat’s behavior in this experiment is:
  1. Stimulus control
  2. Generalized
  3. Blocked
  4. Overshadowed
Explanation
Answer: A - The cat’s behavior in this experiment is stimulus control.

An example of a generalized response would be if the cat responds to red and blue light in the same way. Blocking is a classical conditioning term that refers to a situation where neutral stimulus and conditioned stimuli are presented at the same time and only conditioned stimuli causes the conditioned response. Overshadowing is a situation where two neutral stimuli are presented simultaneously but only one of them causes a conditioned response.
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