Sarah Has Learned to Ignore Her Parents the First Few

question 14

Multiple Choice

Sarah has learned to ignore her parents the first few times they tell her that it's bedtime. James has learned to respond to his parents the first time they mention bedtime. Both sets of parents punish their children for disobedience, but James parents tend to punish much more quickly than do Sarah's parents. The difference between Sarah's and James' responses to their parents is probably due to __________

• A) the temporal relationship between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
• B) the intensity of the unconditioned stimulus.
• C) the number of pairings of the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
• D) the intensity of the conditioned stimulus.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

In statistical analysis, the number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the calculation of a statistic, used in assessing the significance of the statistic.

Friedman Test

A non-parametric statistical method for identifying treatment differences across several trials.

Sign Test

An assessment method without parametric assumptions, designed to check for differences in the median of matched data points.

Randomized Block Experiment

An experimental design that groups subjects into blocks based on certain characteristics before randomly assigning treatments within each block to reduce variation.