Irwin Is Extroverted and Oriented Toward Helping Others

question 130

Multiple Choice

Irwin is extroverted and oriented toward helping others. He has high verbal ability and strong needs for affiliation. He is working toward a career in counseling. According to Holland's theory, he is a(n) ______ type.

• A) social
• B) artistic
• C) enterprising
• D) conventional

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the likelihood of a behavior is increased or decreased through rewards or punishments.

Skinner

B.F. Skinner, a prominent psychologist known for his work in behaviorism and development of the theory of operant conditioning.

Pavlov

A Russian physiologist best known for his discovery of classical conditioning, where an unconditioned stimulus is paired with a conditioned stimulus to produce a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any prior learning.