You are observing the bar-pressing behavior of rats in Skinner boxes; the reinforcer is food pellets. The rats have been trained on different reinforcement schedules and today's session is occurring after 24 hours of food deprivation
You notice that the rats exhibit different rates of behavior. For example, even though both rats started pressing at the same time, one rat is still pressing at a high rate, whereas another rat has stopped pressing after a short time. Which schedule of reinforcement is likely to explain the behavior of the rat that has stopped pressing?
a) FR 1
b) FR 25
c) FR 100
d) FR 250
A
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a. Latent correlation b. Scatterplot analysis c. Multiple correlation d. Factor analysis
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A) bilingual classroom instruction B) English-only instruction C) instruction in the home language only D) trilingual classroom instruction
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Which of the following is NOT true?
a. Tang and Hall (1995) found that contingent reward can mitigate the overjustification effect. b. Wimperis and Farr (1979) found that subjects who received a reward only if they performed well outperformed subjects in the noncontingent condition, thus avoiding the overjustification effect. c. Being rewarded regardless of how well you perform may be the root cause behind the overjustification effect. d. Research has found that lack of reward influences the overjustification effect