Question

If a little boy can hear his mother moving around in the kitchen downstairs in the morning, he can be fairly certain that it is time to get up and have his breakfast. The discriminative stimulus in this example is the:A) breakfast
B) the sounds of the mother moving around
C) the little boy
D) the kitchen

Answer 1

Answer:

B) the sounds of the mother moving around

Explanation:

Discriminative stimulus: In psychology, the term discriminative stimulus refers to an antecedent stimulus that possesses stimulus control over a particular behaviour because that behaviour was reinforced in the presence of that specific stimulus in past.

In other words, the discriminative stimulus is referred to as a stimulus in whose presence a particular response is being reinforced.

In the question above, the discriminative stimulus is the sounds of the mother moving around.