You are training a rat to press a bar. Instead of waiting for the rat's first accidental bar press, you reinforce the rat with a food pellet for facing the bar and then turning toward the bar. Next, you reinforce the rat every time he takes a step toward the bar, until he touches the bar. Lastly, you reinforce the rat for pressing the bar. You are
a. using latent learning to train the rat.
b. fading the rat's behavior.
c. shaping the rat's behavior.
d. using secondary reinforcement with the rat.
C
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a. Actor-observer effect b. Reciprocation c. Contrast effect d. Fundamental attribution error
If differences between the experimental and control groups are obtained, and when the odds are acceptably low that random assignment hasn't failed in an experiment, the results of the experiment are said to be:
A) applicable to the real world. B) certain. C) statistically significant. D) operationally defined.
The action of the sympathetic nervous system is BEST described as ______ to that of the parasympathetic nervous system.
a. opposite b. similar c. different d. unrelated
Although women can certainly become physically aggressive in some settings, aggression and ____________________ are secondary reactions to threat
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word