AP PSYCHOLOGY

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LEARNING

OPERANT CONDITIONING

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A group of ranchers are trying to discourage wolves from attacking their sheep by placing a substance on the sheep’s wool that will make the wolves ill if they eat it. Very quickly, the wolves avoid the sheep entirely. In this scenario, what is the CR?
A
The substance placed on the sheep’s wool
B
Sheep
C
Avoidance of the sheep
D
Getting ill
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A group of ranchers attempts to discourage coyotes from attacking their sheep by placing a substance on the wool of the sheep that makes coyotes violently ill if they eat it. Very quickly, the coyotes avoid the sheep entirely.

Detailed explanation-2: -Operant conditioning is a type of associative learning that focuses on consequences that follow a response that we make and whether it makes a behavior more or less likely to occur in the future. Return to our discussion of operant behaviors from Section 6.1. 2.

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of Stimulus Discrimination In one well-known experiment on classical conditioning, researchers paired the taste of meat (unconditioned stimulus) with the sight of a circle (conditioned stimulus), and dogs learned to salivate in response to the presentation of a circle.

Detailed explanation-4: -behavior produces events in the environment, whereas respondent behavior occurs as an automatic response to a stimulus.

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