Seth is thinking about paying his brother to make his bed every week. Eventually Seth wants to get by without paying his brother while the brother continues to make Seth's bed for a while
He decides to pay his brother every three weeks instead of every week. What process or procedure is Seth using?
a) serial learning
b) the law of effect
c) the partial reinforcement effect
d) the law of limited reinforcement
C
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a. rat mothers differ in how much nurturing/licking/grooming they provide b. pups with low-nurturing mothers have more HPA response to stress and are emotional and fearful c. rats with high-nurturing moms have fewer hippocampampal glucocorticoid receptors, resulting in less negative feedback inhibition. d. variations in maternal nurturing affect the expression of genes for hippocampampal glucocorticoid receptors e. the cross-fostering paradigm can help decouple genetic and environmental effects
Maria is driving her children to school. She is watching the road carefully and following a series of detour signs. One of her children in the back seat of the car is telling her a story, and on the radio a weather report is playing
Maria is trying to listen to her child's story, but she finds that she is unable to concentrate on what the child is saying. Maria is experiencing a) information overload. b) conditions of uncertainty c) a representativeness heuristic. d) anchoring adjustment.