CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Over the course of history, wild dogs/wolves grew to develop a relationship with humans, thus creating the modern domesticated dog. People learned to live together with dogs without fear, and dogs learned to live with humans without fear. Which classical conditioning concept explains this loss of fear?
A
taste aversion
B
extinction
C
generalization
D
discrimination
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"While the humans did not initially gain any kind of benefit from this process, over time they would have developed some kind of symbiotic relationship with these animals, eventually evolving into the dogs we see today. ‘’ The story of how dogs came to be tamed from wolves is complex and hotly debated.

Detailed explanation-2: -The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are different in form from wolves, mainly smaller and with shorter muzzles and smaller teeth.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dogs were probably domesticated by accident, when wolves began trailing ancient hunter-gatherers to snack on their garbage. Docile wolves may have been slipped extra food scraps, the theory goes, so they survived better, and passed on their genes. Eventually, these friendly wolves evolved into dogs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dogs may have become domesticated because our ancestors had more meat than they could eat. During the ice age, hunter-gatherers may have shared any surplus with wolves, which became their pets. The timing and causes of the domestication of dogs are both uncertain.

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