BI308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Stimulus Control, Binary Relation, Sensory Threshold
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Ps261 chapter 8 notes discrimination and differential responding. Stimulus discrimination organism must be able to distinguish between stimuli. Evidence of stimulus discrimination is when the organism responds differently to two different stimuli. Stimulus control is evident if an organism responds differently to different stimuli. Stimulus control and stimulus discrimination are two ways of thinking about the same thing because you can"t have one without the other. If you don"t have stimulus discrimination, then these stimuli can"t come to control behaviour and if you have stimulus control, this must mean that you can discrimination this stimulus from other stimulus. Stimulus generalization gradients as measures of stimulus control. Stimulus generalization think of two different stimuli in a similar way, maybe because they look the same, or because they are used in the same way. This is evident if an animal responds in a similar way to different stimuli.
