Regarding research on whether animals are sensitive to a passage of time, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Pigeons put in a Skinner box with a pecking key on each wall were not able to learn to peck at different keys based on the time of day.
b. Rats on fixed interval schedules stop responding immediately after they received a reinforcer and did not start again until just before the next scheduled reinforcement.
c. When scrub jays were allowed to hoard nuts in one location and worms in another, they would go directly to the worms if they were released four hours later.
d. When scrub jays were allowed to hoard nuts in one location and worms in another, they would go directly to the nuts if they were released five days later.
A
You might also like to view...
Marlowe and others (1996) found that 62% of hiring managers studied selected a candidate who was
a. physically attractive. b. a college graduate. c. male. d. white.
A clinical trial is most likely to use a ____ sample
a. nonprobability b. probability c. random d. simple
Climbing fibers synapsing in the cerebellum originate from cells located in the a. deep cerebellar nuclei
b. amygdala. c. inferior olive of the medulla. d. interpositus nucleus.
Dr. Esterson is studying the effect of caffeine on laboratory rats. He has decided that he will give the rats 100 milligrams of caffeine three times a day, and then run them through mazes at various points to see if
there is any change in the time it takes to complete the maze. Based on his review of existing research addressing this topic, Dr. Esterson believes that the rats will complete the maze the fastest immediately after they ingest the caffeine. Dr. Esterson's belief about the results he will find is called a(n): a. covariate. b. construct. c. theory. d. hypothesis.