You have a class in which you have a quiz every Friday. Your studying for quizzes is reinforced on what type of schedule?
a) fixed-ratio
b) fixed-interval
c) variable-ratio
d) variable-interval
ANS: B, Because you know that you will have the reinforcement after a fixed amount of time (one week), this is a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement.
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a. any feeling, thought, or behavior that harms another person—regardless of intention and regardless of the other person's motivations b. any feeling, thought, or behavior in which harm is intentionally rendered to another person and the other person is motivated to avoid harm c. any behavior intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid the harm d. any behavior intended to harm another person—regardless of the other person's motivations
How many of these items could be elements of someone's life story: emotions, main characters, and a legacy?
a. none b. one c. two d. three
Clarence was celebrating his favorite team's Super Bowl victory on his own when some of his friends showed up and invited him to a "street party" to celebrate. There were hundreds of people at the party, and as the party progressed, Clarence began to vandalize property with some of the others in the group. It appears that the "street party":
a. caused Clarence to experience deindividuation b. created a sense of groupthink in Clarence c. caused Clarence to display a self-serving bias d. produced a self-serving bias in Clarence
Conceptually, the standard deviation for a distribution can be thought of as:
A) the center of the distribution. B) the average frequency for each category. C) the average distance from the mean. D) the distance between the highest and lowest value.