Skinner found that if he randomly presented rewards to pigeons in a Skinner box, the pigeons ________
a. refused to eat the food
b. ceased all movement until the food pellets were randomly presented for a second time
c. developed a series of trial and error behaviors in an attempt to get the reward
d. developed a series of superstitious behaviors
Answer: d
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a. proactive interference. b. retrograde amnesia. c. pseudoforgetting. d. cryptomnesia.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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A) intrinsically B) extrinsically C) implicitly D) explicitly