Prior Experience Has Little Effect on Spectators' Expectations as They

question 38

True/False

Prior experience has little effect on spectators' expectations as they view a film.

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Definitions:

Operant Chamber

An apparatus that creates an enclosed environment, used for the study of operant behavior within it.

Matching Law

A principle of behavioral psychology that states an individual will choose to engage in behaviors proportional to the rewards offered for those behaviors.

FR 10 Schedule

A fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded only after it has been performed a specified number of times, in this case, ten times.

FR 40 Schedule

A type of fixed-ratio schedule in operant conditioning where a response is reinforced only after a specific number of responses have been made, in this case, every 40th response.