A ________________ reinforcer is a stimulus or event that is naturally or inherently reinforcing for a given species, such as food, water, or other biological necessities.

Related MCQs

• ________________ involves the presentation or addition of a reinforcing stimulus following an operant.
• The process by which an organism learn to make a particular response to a specific stimulus and to no other stimulus is____________________
• ___________________ refers to gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned behavior when it is no longer followed by a reinforcer.
• ________________ refers to the presentation of an event or stimulus following a behavior that acts to decrease the likelihood of the behavior being repeated.
• _________________ is the operant conditioning procedure of selectively reinforcing successively closer approximations of a goal behavior until the goal behavior is displayed.
• Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened is _________________
• The ____________ perspective deals with unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or instinctual energy.
• Even experiments conducted in natural settings have disadvantages, such as a ___________ in experimental control.
• The ________________ variable in an experiment is purposely manipulated in order to effect a change in other variable.
• ___________________ is the tendency to use your own culture as the standard for judging other cultures.