Oil Quality and Price

question 141

Essay

Oil Quality and Price
Quality of oil is measured in API gravity degrees--the higher the degrees API,the higher the quality.The table shown below is produced by an expert in the field who believes that there is a relationship between quality and price per barrel. A partial Minitab output follows: ​ ​ ​
-{Oil Quality and Price Narrative} Draw a scatter diagram of the data.Comment on whether it appears that a linear model might be appropriate to describe the relationship between the quality of oil and price per barrel.

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Definitions:

Behavioral Contrast

A phenomenon where the rate of response to a stimulus changes significantly due to the introduction of a reinforcement or punishment to another stimulus.

Discrimination Learning

A cognitive process where an individual learns to respond differently to various stimuli that are not identical.

Excitatory Generalization

The process whereby a conditioned response is observed not only to the conditioned stimulus but also to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus.

Inhibitory Generalization

Inhibitory generalization refers to the process whereby learned inhibition to a certain stimulus is generalized to other similar stimuli.