If we reinforce an infant for engaging in a behavior, what kind of learning approach are we utilizing?
a. classical conditioning c. operant conditioning
b. observational learning d. social learning
C
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Which of the following statements are true;
a) There is no one-to-one correspondence between physical and psychological reality. b) Sensation and perception are active processes. c) Sensation and perception are adaptive (facilitation of survival and reproduction). d) All of the above are true
Skinner recognized an important difference between Pavlov's and Thorndike's
procedures, namely, that in Pavlov's procedure a. the eliciting stimulus can be anything. b. the behavior that can be brought under environmental control is limited to those responses that can already be elicited by other stimuli. c. the eliciting stimulus strengthens any and all behaviors that precede it but none that follow it. d. it doesn't really matter whether the eliciting stimulus precedes or follows the response, since the effect is always to strengthen it. e. once the eliciting stimulus is selected, the choice is then whether it will be used to strengthen or weaken the behavior that it follows.