In operant conditioning, the process of delivering reinforcement for successive approximations to a desired behavior is referred to as:
a. shaping
b. partial reinforcement
c. modeling
d. classical conditioning
A
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A) Adolescence B) Adulthood C) Old age D) Childhood
This year's graduation speaker spoke of the graduates' freedom to direct their futures and achieve self-fulfillment. The speaker has most probably been influenced by which psychological perspective?
a. behavioral c. humanistic b. cognitive d. psychoanalytic
A recent review of studies on ESP using the Ganzfeld procedure concluded that __________
a) no convincing evidence for psychic ability had emerged from any of the studies. b) no convincing evidence for psychic ability had emerged from the majority of studies. c) convincing evidence for psychic ability had been found in the majority of studies. d) convincing evidence for psychic ability had been found in virtually all studies.
A researcher investigates whether there is a relationship between hours spent watching television and children's vocabulary by asking 40 randomly selected 11-year-olds how many hours of television they watch per week and then having them take a vocabulary test. What is the independent variable in this study?
a. hours of television watching b. vocabulary scores c. age of the subjects d. there is no independent variable; the study is correlational