The impact on performance of the presence of other people engaged in the same task is also known as _____
a) coaction effects.
b) social facilitation.
c) conformity.
d) the actor-observer effect.
Answer: a
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a. ?egotistical b. ?irrational c. ?manic d. ?sadistic
Responses acquired under schedules of partial reinforcement are less resistant to extinction than those acquired with continuous reinforcement
a. true b. false
Stuttering appears to be primarily a result of
A. pressuring a child to speak. B. genetics. C. the competition with siblings for speaking time. D. immaturity of the vocal apparatus.
An animal is conditioned to salivate to a bell using Pavlovian procedures. After the conditioning is established, the animal is then put through an extinction procedure and the conditioned salivation disappears
Then the animal is removed from the test situation for several days. When returned to the test situation, the conditioned response is seen again. The effect is known as __________ a) spontaneous recovery. b) higher-order conditioning. c) extinction. d) stimulus generalization.