TABLE 10-5 To Test the Effectiveness of a Business School Preparation Course,8

question 172

True/False

TABLE 10-5
To test the effectiveness of a business school preparation course,8 students took a general business test before and after the course.The results are given below.
-True or False: Referring to Table 10-5,you must assume that the population of difference scores is normally distributed.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a pause, without new learning trials.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning by which a stimulus that was previously neutral is paired with a conditioned stimulus to produce the same conditioned response as the original conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In biology, the end of an organism or of a group of organisms, normally a species; in psychology, the process through which a conditioned response is eliminated through repeated exposure without reinforcement.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response without prior conditioning.