Negative patterning is difficult to learn because it requires the organism to suppress its tendency to:
A) make a motor response.
B) discriminate.
C) categorize.
D) generalize.

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Negative patterning requires the organism to learn that a combination of cues predicts a different outcome than each cue alone, which is difficult because it goes against the organism's natural tendency to generalize or apply the learned response to similar stimuli.

Negative Patterning Is Difficult to Learn Because It Requires the Organism