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Q. Once a researcher has identified a question or issue to be investigated, it must be posed in the form of a _____________ that can be tested empirically.

Q. 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.

Q. When a dog learns to salivate only to a bell and not to a buzzer, the process that has taken place is called ______________

Q. The principle of stereoscopic vision is based on _________________

Q. _________________ is Skinner’s term for an actively emitted behavior that operates on the environment to produce consequences.

Q. The ________________ variable in an experiment is purposely manipulated in order to effect a change in other variable.

Q. ___________________ refers to gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned behavior when it is no longer followed by a reinforcer.

Q. _________________ is the operant conditioning procedure of selectively reinforcing successively closer approximations of a goal behavior until the goal behavior is displayed.

Q. _____________ is the tendency of an animal to revert to its instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the performance of an operantly conditioned response.

Q. ____________________ is the application of learning principles to help people develop more effective or adaptive behaviors.