Mr. Whitford's fifth-grade students sit quietly and continue doing their work when Mr. Whitford leaves the room because he rewards them with more recess time if they do so. Learning based on association of behavior with consequences is called

A. classical conditioning.
B. operant conditioning.
C. the pleasure principle.
D. the reality principle.


B. operant conditioning.

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Differentiate between within-class ability grouping and between-class ability grouping

What will be an ideal response?

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A teacher in a school was interested in examining the differences in children’s maths scores across a year group, which consisted of three classes. She was particularly interested in whether the class the child was in had a possible influence on the child’s maths score.  She ran an ANOVA with the predictor variable ‘class’, which had three categories, ‘Yellow Class’, ‘Green Class’ and ‘Purple class’; the outcome variable was ‘maths score’. Her ANOVA had an F-statistic of 4.23 (p 0.68). How would you interpret her findings?

A. There is a significant difference in children’s maths scores by class membership. B. There is no significant difference in children’s maths scores by class membership. C. There is insufficient information; the results of Post hoc tests is needed. D. The results are ambiguous.

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The key difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset is whether you believe what?

A. People can improve with effort B. Things will turn out well C. People are more similar or different D. We have free will when making decisions

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