Weakening a behavior through the withdrawal of reinforcement for that behavior is known as ______.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: Extinction.
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a. references b. conclusion c. discussion d. results
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following assumptions are common to all parametric statistics?
a. There are no common assumptions. b. The population of dependent scores forms a normal distribution, regardless of what kind of scores they are. c. The dependent scores must be interval or ratio scores, regardless of whether the population of scores forms a normal distribution. d. The population of dependent scores (a) must be interval or ratio scores and (b) must form an approximately normal distribution.
According to the text, which of the following may characterize romantic love?
a. a passionate emotional and physical involvement b. an interpersonal ‘game’ of manipulation without deep emotional involvement c. passion and game-playing that may be very possessive d. a rational and deliberate process of choosing a mate e. all of the above