In order to learn to do a triple jump in ice skating, Jennifer broke the triple jump into its component parts — the take-off, the individual turns, and the landing — and practiced each of those individually
Jennifer was using __________ to master a complex act.
a. locomotion c. integration
b. fine-motor skills d. differentiation
d
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You attend every new movie at your local theater, but you enjoy only about half of them. Which schedule of reinforcement is this?
a. Fixed-interval b. Variable-interval c. Fixed-ratio d. Variable-ratio
Hopi children who spend their first year strapped to a cradleboard
a. are usually at least one year behind in learning to walk. b. walk sooner than children from other cultures. c. may never learn to walk. d. learn to walk at about the same time as children from other cultures.
Duane Rumbaugh and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh taught a chimp named Kanzi to communicate by pushing buttons on a computer keyboard. Each of the 250 buttons is marked with geometric word-symbol called a(n)
a. abscissa. b. mnemonic. c. lexigram. d. algorithm.
When we must make a choice among various alternatives, which of the following often determines intuitively what seems to be the right answer?
a. knowledge of the base rate b. divergent thinking c. deductive reasoning d. emotional reactions