When a person has linked a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that now the neutral stimulus triggers the conditioned response, <u>acquisition</u> has occurred.
<u>Explanation:</u>
A trigger that in the beginning causes no specific answer other than attention concentration is understood as "a neutral stimulus". In operant conditioning the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus when used in combined way with an unconditioned stimulus.
Now let us say, for instance, you need to take your child to the pediatrician for a shot. The pediatrist hits a buzzer before the shot to call her nurse to come in and help her conduct the vaccine. Here the buzzer's noise is the neutral stimulus, as it generates no reaction from the infant, but the child knows that.
Answer:
Habitat loss
Explanation:
Habitat loss is the single greatest threat to biodiversity on Earth today and in fact it is the second largest threat to our existence on this planet next to Climate Change.
Difficult because it went against basically everything that was previously believed to be true
Answer:
The correct hypothesis would be - C) Burmese pythons lack natural predators and can utilize a wide variety of food sources in the Everglades.
Explanation:
Burmese pythons are the invasive species in this new region as they originally found in South Africa, and also one of the largest snakes so they lack natural predators in this new setting or region.
These snakes depend on both types of food which means they are omnivorous and eat both herbivore and carnivores prey.
Thus, the correct answer is - Burmese pythons lack natural predators and can utilize a wide variety of food sources in the Everglades.
