What is the primary concept in operant conditioning?
a. a conditioned stimulus is neutral
b. conditioned response leads to extinction
c. behavior is determined by its consequences
d. negative reinforcement is the same as punishment
Answer: c.
You might also like to view...
According to I3 theory, what "I" increases Martin's likelihood of acting in an aggressive manner when Trisha declines his offer to go on a date?
a. impellance b. instigation c. inhibition d. impetuousness
Which of the following best explains why most of us cannot describe or recall events that happened to us as infants?
Emotions are closely tied to memory, and the emotional centers of the infant brain have not yet developed. Language is an important tool in memory formation, and infants have not yet developed language skills. Infants are not motivated to form long-term memories as long as their needs are being met. The memory areas of the cortex are not yet present in infants.
Walter Cannon found that a sequence of activity is triggered in response to danger, and called this dual stress response the __________ response
FIll in the blank with correct word.
The mean attention span for adults in a certain village is 15 minutes with a standard deviation of 6.4 . If the means of all possible samples of size 30 is taken from this population, will equal _________
a. 3.0 c. 0.21 b. 6.4 d. 1.17