You know that you have a major project due in a couple of weeks but find it difficult to get started; after all, there are other things you need to get done too. Your experience is an example of the fact that the motivation to engage in an activity depends on all of the following EXCEPT
a. the reinforcers that engaging in that activity will produce.
b. the reinforcers that engaging in the other, competing activities will produce.
c. the context of reinforcement provided by the activities that you can choose between.
d. whether the activities you can choose between are a good match for each other.
e. your history of reinforcement.
d. whether the activities you can choose between are a good match for each other.
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Behaviorism began as a protest against psychologists who tried to study what?
a. Reflexive acts b. Evolution c. Animal learning d. Mental states
According to the textbook, compared to animals such as birds, humans ____ the acceptance of others in their social group
a. must work much harder to gain b. are completely uninterested in gaining c. are much less interested in gaining d. are equally interested in gaining
Peak levels of creativity tend to occur EARLIEST in individuals who are in the
a. sciences. b. humanities. c. mathematics. d. arts.
In a z-distribution, the standard deviation will always be
a. greater than 1. b. less than 1. c. equal to 1. d. equal to 0.