When you were first learning to make your bed, your parents told you that you did a good job when you got the bedspread pulled up, even though the bed was still a little messy
For the next week they showed you how to be a little neater each time you made the bed. What operant conditioning procedure did your parents use?
a) generalization
b) extinction
c) shaping
d) punishment
ANS: C, Shaping refers to the reinforcement of successive approximations of a desired behavior until the target behavior is achieved.
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A(n) ___ is a measure of how strongly two variables are related to one another
a) independent variable b) dependent variable c) experimental effect d) correlation
Bob and Joe are given the task of dividing $10 between them. Bob initially makes an offer to divide the money such that he takes $7 for himself and gives Joe $3. If you were looking at an MRI scan of Joe's brain, what would you see?
A) No activity in the limbic system as this is clearly a rational task. B) Activity in the limbic system, but little activity anywhere else. C) Activity in both the limbic system and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex because both emotion and rationality are involved. D) Activity only in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. E) Bob's MRI scan would be more informative than Joe's to understand how Joe will react.