A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus that __________

A) provides the organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement.
B) leads a person to discriminate against one group of people based on ethnicity or race.
C) cues the person into which schedule of reinforcement is being used in operant conditioning.
D) Watson used to make Little Albert scared of all fuzzy things.

Discriminative Stimulus

A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response is reinforced, helping to differentiate it from other stimuli where the response would not be reinforced.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the likelihood of a behavior is increased or decreased through reinforcement or punishment.

Reinforcement

A process in behavioral psychology that increases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated, through positive or negative stimuli.