After Pigs Learned to Pick Up and Deposit Wooden Coins

question 56

Multiple Choice

After pigs learned to pick up and deposit wooden coins in a piggy bank, the pigs subsequently dropped the coins repeatedly and pushed them with their snouts. This best illustrates the importance of ________ in operant conditioning.

• A) conditioned reinforcement
• B) latent learning
• C) generalization
• D) biological predispositions

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Definitions:

Sample Standard Deviations

A measure of the dispersion or variability of data points in a sample from their mean.

Margin Of Error

An expression of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results, indicating a range within which the true value lies with a specified confidence level.

Equal Sample Sizes

A condition in experimental design where all groups being compared have the same number of observations or participants.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive" finding or conclusion.