Sandy's favorite activity is to go to Las Vegas and play the slot machines. Her gambling behavior is being reinforced on a __________ schedule
a) fixed-ratio
b) fixed-interval
c) variable-ratio
d) variable-interval
ANS: C, Because Sandy does not know how many times she has to do a specific behavior (play the machine) before she'll be rewarded, this is variable-ratio reinforcement.
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To determine whether the children would respond to frustration using the aggressive behavior they had seen the model perform, Bandura created frustration by:
a. allowing all children to play with the Bobo doll. b. allowing children access to the best toys and then taking the toys away. c. allowing only those children exposed to the aggressive model access to toys. d. refusing access to the Bobo doll to children participating in the study.
The systematic elimination of extraneous variables other than those you are interested in can be eliminated in what research design?
a. qualitative research. b. correlational research. c. experimental research d. longitudinal research.