Punishment is an aversive event that _________ the frequency of the behavior it follows
a. increases
b. decreases
c. eliminates
d. maintains
B
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Believing that a particular statement is true simply because you have seen the statement in previous instances is known as the ________ effect.
A. conditioning B. primacy C. recency D. propaganda
Children of permissive parents often appear to be
a. less mature. c. high in the motive to achieve. b. in need of parental warmth. d. good communicators.
What role did Fisher's statistical work play in the use of single-subject designs following the Fisher process?
a. Individual differences were ignored and averaged out. b. Individual differences were analyzed since they represented important variation. c. He advocated the use of single-subject designs. d. He developed special statistical procedures.
According to one study of federal sentencing data, offenders who pled guilty received ______________________ than offenders who were convicted at trial.
A. 15% longer sentences B. 15% shorter sentences C. 25% longer sentences D. 25% shorter sentences