If we drive through a red traffic light, we can get a ticket.If the light is green, we do not get a ticket.In operant conditioning terms, the red and green lights serve as
A)facilitating stimuli.
B)reinforcing stimuli.
C)avoidance stimuli.
D)discriminative stimuli.

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The red and green lights serve as discriminative stimuli because they signal when a particular behavior (driving through the intersection) will or will not lead to a consequence (getting a ticket).

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