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Learning: Principles and Applications, 4/e
Stephen B Klein, Mississippi State University
Stimulus Control Of Behavior

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1

In discrimination, the reinforcement contingency associated with one stimulus depends on the status of a second stimulus.
2

is a change in responding due to the anticipation of impending reinforcement contingencies.
3

Hanson (1959) found that the greatest responding in discrimination-trained subjects was not to the exact sD, but to a slightly different stimulus, a phenomenon called .
4

Sutherland and Mackintosh developed a(n) theory of discrimination learning.
5

The theory of discrimination learning assumes that learning occurs through hypothesis testing.
6

In discrimination learning, there is no responding to the sΔ.
7

is the process in which animals or people learn to respond differently to different stimuli.
8

Racists respond in the same manner to all people of a particular group due to .
9

results in different pay scales for people of different racial backgrounds.
10

A task is being used when the sD and the sΔ are on the same stimulus dimension.








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