Billy taught two rats how to play basketball for his experimental psychology class. What process did he likely use?
a) operant conditioning
b) shaping
c) reinforcement
d) punishment
Answer: b
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What type of consequence of a behavior increases the likelihood of the recurrence of that behavior in the future?
A. a punisher B. a neutral stimulus C. conditioned response D. a reinforcer E. a conditioned stimulus
Sex-linked genetic characteristics appear in phenotypes
a. of women more often than men. b. of men more often than women. c. of women and men rarely and equally. d. of women and men often and equally.
Marco has been running each afternoon trying to beat his college's record for the 400 meter sprint. Despite all his practicing, he hasn't been able to come in under his usual time
There's a big fan turnout for the track meet on Saturday against the rival school and Marco not only beats the old record, but far surpasses it. Marco's behavior illustrates A) social facilitation. B) social compensation. C) social loafing. D) the bystander effect.
If you were to graph the six possible scores that can be obtained by rolling a single six-sided die, what type of distribution would you have?
A) normal distribution B) rectangular distribution C) bimodal distribution D) none of these