Homework Help: dog behavior

Posted by -Anne on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7:39am.

A dog owner always says the word "coffee" to his choclate lab puppy, using no special intontion and giving no reinforcement whatsoever. Later he tries to use the work coffee as the dogs name What phenomenon would best decscrbe the dog's indfference to the word "coffee"

A blocking
B over shadowng
C extnction
D latent inhibition

I picked D

dog behavior - Writeacher, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 8:55am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_inhibition

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