After receiving a new position, you are told that you will spend the first three days in training. While you expected to be sitt
ing in the conference room being told what to do, you arrive your first day to find you will be following Puja around and watching her do the job you will be expected to do. On which theory is this type of training based? A. Pygmalion Effect
B. Social-Learning Theory
C. Operant Conditioning Equity Theory
D. Reinforcement Theory
The correct choice is option A, which represents a conditioned stimulus.
In the framework of classical conditioning, a conditioned stimulus elicits a response when paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Essentially, it prompts an organism to react in relation to another stimulus.
