Imagine you are conducting an experiment to test between the relational and the

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Imagine you are conducting an experiment to test between the relational and the absolute theory of stimulus control. 56 Available shaded button Stimuli Key Training Stimuli S-S+ Food Hopper Test Stimuli Stimuli Pigeon Operant Chamber TRAINING On half of the trials in your training phase pigeons are presented with button #1 as the S-and button #2 as the S+. On the other half of the training phase trials the same pigeons are presented with button #5 as the S. and button #6 as the S+. The 1-2 button trials and the 5-6 button trials are randomly mixed. The other buttons (#3 and #4) are NOT presented/seen during the training phase. TESTING: After the pigeons have been thoroughly trained, the pigeons are presented with shaded buttons #3 and #4. The other colors (#1, #2, #5, and #6) are NOT presented during the testing phase. QUESTION A According t he RELATIONAL THEORY of stimulus control which of the colored buttons (#3 or #4) will the pigeons peck at most during the TESTING phase? QUESTION B Using your understanding of RELATIONAL THEORY, EXPLAIN why you made your prediction Cliek Save and Submit to sque and submit, Click Se AI Aners ut oll anuers Save All AnswersClose Window

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According to the relational theory of stimulus control, the pigeon will not peck at the #3 or #4 coloured buttons during the testing phase. The prediction is made because of the following understanding of the relational theory. The pigeon has learned about the relationship between the coloured buttons #1,#2,#5 and #6 and the food, that's why when different buttons where pressed, no response was given by the pigeon. This is the relational theory of stimulus control.

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