Dogs are trained with a red-light S+ and a yellow-light S- in context 1.Then, in context 2, the same dogs receive training with a yellow-light S+ and a red-light S-.Assuming they receive the same number of reinforcers in each context during training, what will be the role of the contexts in the subsequent test trials in each context?
A)The contexts will be associated with different S+/S- contingencies.
B)The contexts will not appear to control behavior because the reinforcers delivered in each context were the same.
C)Context 1 will cause a peak shift of the performance in context 2 because excitatory training occurred there first.
D)Context 2 will cause a peak shift of the performance in context 1 because of recency effects.

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The contexts will be associated with different S+/S- contingencies because the dogs were trained with different color lights as S+ and S- in each context. Therefore, they will learn to discriminate between the contexts and respond differently based on the color of the light presented.

Dogs Are Trained with a Red-Light S+ and a Yellow-Light