From a response contingent viewpoint, which of the following tells a person or an animal that a response was "right" and worth repeating?

a. the conditioned stimulus
b. the reinforcer
c. the operant
d. an acquisitional cue


B

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a. the critical value. b. the test value. c. the rejection value. d. the acceptance value.

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Describe how a researcher can establish construct validity

What will be an ideal response?

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When information is first translated into a form that other cognitive processes can use, we say that ______ has occurred.

a. retrieval b. storage c. forgetting d. encoding

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An educational psychologist has decided to do research on reading behavior. If he were to approach this topic from the broadest level of analysis, he would be most likely to study

a. whether readers move their lips while reading. b. whether attitudes toward reading vary around the world. c. the eye movements readers make while reading a page of text. d. left and right brain hemisphere differences in the processing of foreign languages.

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