"Maybe this lottery ticket will be a winner. The last couple ones I've bought were losers, but I do buy a winner every once in a while." This person's lottery ticket-buying behavior is on what schedule of reinforcement?
A. continuous
B. fixed interval
C. variable ratio
D. fixed ratio
Answer: C
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Severe head injury resulting in unconsciousness often causes a person to experience __________, the inability to recall events that happened right before the injury.
A. amnestic dementia B. anterograde amnesia C. retrograde amnesia D. psychogenic amnesia
All of the following support the role of maturation in motor development except:
A. Infants from 1 to 7 weeks of age who practice stepping reflexes each day retain the movements and walk earlier than infants who receive no practice. B. Babies who are swaddled walk at the same time as nonswaddled babies. C. Identical twins share a similarity in the timing and pace of motor development. D. Cross-cultural research finds that infants around the world display roughly the same sequence of motor milestones.
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
a. Behaviors associated with approval or approach (e.g., head shaking, pulling) cause more positive attitudes than actions associated with disapproval or avoidance. b. Motor actions influence attitudes by acting as cues, influencing deliberation, biasing attitude-relevant elaboration, or affecting thought confidence. c. The consumption of alcohol and caffeine can influence the favorability of our attitudes and our susceptibility to attitude change. d. There is a direct link between genes and attitudes.
José studies, stays awake for eight hours, then sleeps for eight hours. Santos studies, then sleeps eight hours, and is then awake for eight hours. Santos will remember more than José because Santos experienced more of which of the following before the interference began?
a. consolidation b. priming c. eidetic processing d. redintegration