If a little boy can hear his mother moving around in the kitchen downstairs in the morning,he can be fairly certain that it is time to get up and have his breakfast.The discriminative stimulus in this example is:
A)breakfast.
B)the sounds of the mother moving around.
C)the little boy.
D)the kitchen.

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The discriminative stimulus in this example is the sounds of the mother moving around in the kitchen, which signals to the little boy that it's time to get up and have breakfast. The other options (breakfast, the little boy, and the kitchen itself) are not the specific stimuli that the little boy is identifying and responding to in this scenario.

If a Little Boy Can Hear His Mother Moving Around