Mary arrives home to find her son washing the dirty dishes left from his party the night before. When she discovers his first-semester grade report on the table and sees that he got straight A's, Mary rewards him by relieving him of the unpleasant task of
Which operant process does the example illustrate?
a. positive punishment
b. negative punishment
c. negative reinforcement
d. positive reinforcement
Answer: c
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a. Facial EMG can detect muscular changes not observable to the naked eye. b. Facial EMG does not provide information about the direction of attitudes. c. One problem with using facial EMG is that the same pattern of activity could be interpreted as happiness orsadness d. Facial EMG is only an accurate measure of attitudes if people know their attitudes are being assessed, so it issusceptible social desirability biases.
Related to the overall impact on marital relationships, what type of affair has been found to have the LEAST effect?
a. Emotional b. Sexual c. Emotional and Sexual d. Internet
Three-year-old Isabella is pretending to feed her doll. She puts three wooden blocks on a toy plate. Using the blocks as food demonstrates
A) symbolic play. B) sensorimotor play. C) animism. D) intuitive play.
Assume that two jurors hear the same evidence that favors the prosecution. Also assume that, at that point in the trial, Juror A favors the prosecution and Juror B favors the defense. According to the notion of predecisional distortion, _______.
A. Juror B would evaluate this evidence as favoring the prosecution while recognizing loopholes in another piece of evidence B. Juror A would evaluate this evidence as favoring the defense while recognizing loopholes in another piece of evidence C. Juror A might evaluate it as favoring neither party, distorting his or her interpretation of the evidence away from its objective value D. Juror B might evaluate it as favoring neither party, distorting his or her interpretation of the evidence away from its objective value