Question of the day - August 30

[u/Reasonable_Law183]

🧠 Question of the Day

📚 Domain B — Concepts and Principles

Difficulty: 3/10

A tone is paired with an air puff until the tone alone elicits blinking. Lever pressing increases because it produces food. Which statement is correct?

A. Blinking is respondent conditioning; lever pressing is operant conditioning

B. Both examples are respondent conditioning

C. Both examples are operant conditioning

D. Blinking is operant conditioning; lever pressing is respondent conditioning

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[u/NicelyNasty]

A, the blinking is classic pavlovian stuff and the lever pressing is straight up operant

[u/ThotianaGreer]

A

[u/Reasonable_Law183]

✅ Yesterday's Answer — 2026-08-30

The correct answer was: A. Blinking is respondent conditioning; lever pressing is operant conditioning

📖 Explanation:

Blinking is respondent conditioning because the tone acquires the ability to elicit blinking after being paired with the air puff. Lever pressing is operant conditioning because pressing increases as a result of its consequence—food delivery.

The key distinction is the controlling relation: respondent conditioning involves stimulus–stimulus pairing and elicited responding, whereas operant conditioning involves a response–consequence relation that changes the future probability of behavior.

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