Question

Consider an experiment in which a pigeon is placed in a Skinner box with a button on the wall. The cage contains a small green light that is turned on and off intermittently throughout the day. When the pigeon pecks the button when the green light is on, the behavior is reinforced with food. When it pecks the button when the green light is off, the behavior is not reinforced. The pigeon soon learns that button pecking will be rewarded only when the green light is on. In this scenario, the green light is a(n) __________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Discriminative stimulus

Explanation:

A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus related to reinforcement that will shape a certain behavior by the subject through that said reinforcement. In this case, the pigeon will, over time, only peck the button when the green light is on, since this behavior is rewarded with food, while pecking with the light off is not reinforced.