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Bill drives faster than the speed limit only when his friends are in the car with him because they tell him he is cool. Bill’s behavior of driving over the speed limit only when his friends are with him is said to be under ____________ control.

a- situational
b- operant
c- isolated
d- stimulus

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Answer:

d- stimulus

Step-by-step explanation:

Stimulus control: In psychology, the term stimulus control is defined as the phenomenon in which a particular stimulus increases a particular behavior's probability in the theory of operant conditioning due to the former experience of that specific behavior being reinforced differently in the presence of that stimulus.

Stimulus controls involve the extinction and reinforcement techniques.

In the question above, the given statement signifies the stimulus control.

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