A pigeon is reinforced for pecking a key whenever a particular tone is sounded but never reinforced if the tone is absent.Pigeons discriminating these conditions will:
A)not learn anything under these conditions.
B)key peck only when the tone turns off.
C)begin key pecking whenever the tone sounds and will continue to peck the key,even when it turns off.
D)key peck only in the presence of the tone sounding.

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The pigeon is being reinforced for pecking the key only when the particular tone is sounding. Therefore, the pigeon will learn to peck the key only in the presence of the tone, which is the discriminative stimulus for this behavior.

A Pigeon Is Reinforced for Pecking a Key Whenever a Particular