Psychologists use shaping because of which limitation of operant conditioning?
A. Punishment does not teach new responses, it only inhibits old ones.
B. Behaviors will extinguish if they are not reinforced occasionally.
C. One must wait for the organism's response before it can be rewarded or punished.
D. Operant procedures condition responses only to very specific stimuli.
C
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a. the hindsight bias. b. a memory heuristic. c. memory inflation. d. a flashbulb memory.
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a. mathematicians b. nominalists c. existentialists d. phrenologists
Marco's parents were raised in a country with a collectivist culture but immigrated to the United States just after Marco was born. He grew up in a warm extended family that supported one another and had plenty of friends. As a high school senior, Marco is asked to write an essay about how he pursues happiness in his life. What is he most likely to write?
A. I am most happy when I can help my family and friends be happy. B. I am most happy when I am pursuing my own personal interests. C. I am most happy when I have some extra money to spend on things that reflect my personality. D. I am most happy when I am thinking about the good things that have happened to me in my life.
One major weakness in template matching theory is that it requires ________ of templates to be found in order to recognize each geometric form we see and recognize
A) countless thousands B) scores C) countless millions D) hundreds E) several hundreds