Professor Abboud told her students that if her door was closed it meant that she was unavailable to them and would be angry if they knocked on her door. But if her door was open, it meant that she was in a rare good mood and would answer questions at that time. Professor Abboud's door being open was a __________ for __________.
A) discriminative stimulus; asking questions
B) discriminative stimulus; not asking questions
C) discriminative response; asking questions
D) discriminative response; not asking questions

Question

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Professor Abboud's door being open serves as a discriminative stimulus, meaning it signals to the students that they should behave in a certain way (either by asking questions or by refraining from doing so). The correct second blank is "asking questions" because that is the behavior that is being controlled by the discriminative stimulus.

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