In Time, Bread Becomes Stale and Grows Mold on the Exposed

question 6

Multiple Choice

In time, bread becomes stale and grows mold on the exposed surfaces. Why does mold not begin growing inside the bread loaf?

• A) Mold can grow only on dry surfaces.
• B) Only molds at the surface of the bread can get oxygen to respire.
• C) Mold actually begins from anywhere inside but produces colored spores only at the surface.
• D) There is an antibiotic antagonism between the bread mold and the internal yeasts that made the bread rise.
• E) The bread was sterilized when it was baked and thereafter mold spores settle only on the outside of the cooled bread.

Recognizing limitations and strengths of experimental research.

Identifying strategies to control for demand characteristics and experimenter bias.

Understand the definition and scope of social psychology.

Identify and explain key concepts in social psychology such as attributions, the primacy effect, and the self-serving bias.

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Definitions:

Contingent Reinforcement

A type of conditioning in which a reward or punishment (the reinforcement) is given only after the desired response or behavior occurs, making it contingent on the behavior.

Sales Goals

Targets set by a business or sales team to achieve a specific amount of sales revenue within a certain timeframe.

Secondary Reinforcers

Stimuli which become reinforcing through their association with a primary reinforcer, not inherently rewarding themselves.

Primary

The most important or foundational in a series or system; often serving as the first or initial stage.