When researchers want to use operant conditioning to train animals to perform complicated behaviors, they must use a step-by-step procedure called __________________
FIll in the blank with correct word.
Answer: shaping
Rationale: Shaping is a step-by-step procedure in which a specific operant response is created by reinforcing successive approximations of that response.
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a. True b. False
Drew administered a survey to his Human Sexuality classmates. After analyzing the data, he found a strong positive correlation between relationship satisfaction and sexual satisfaction. This pattern of data
A) ?indicates that high sexual satisfaction causes people to have high relationship satisfaction. B) ?indicates that high relationship satisfaction causes people to have high sexual satisfaction. C) ?warns that he may have biased his own study. D) ?cannot determine if there is a third variable that causes both of the satisfaction levels.
A(n) _____________ refers to a drug that activates a neurotransmitter receptor.
a. antagonist b. agonist c. partial agonist d. positive modulator
A psychological trait
A. has a real existence. B. has no relation to observed behavior. C. is a construct. D. All of these