Children Who Are Promised a Payoff for Playing with an Interesting

question 68

Multiple Choice

Children who are promised a payoff for playing with an interesting toy have later been observed to play with the toy less than those who are not promised the reward. This provides evidence for the role of ________ in operant behavior.

• A) spontaneous recovery
• B) primary reinforcers
• C) cognitive processes
• D) negative reinforcers

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Confidence Level

The probability or percentage that a parameter lies within a specified range of values, indicating the degree of certainty about a statistical estimate.

One-sample T Test

A statistical evaluation designed to ascertain if there's a significant difference between the mean of a single sample and a known or assumed mean of a population.