Which of the Following Statements Is True of the Partial-Reinforcement

question 129

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of the partial-reinforcement effect?

• A) Behaviours that have been partially reinforced rather than continuously reinforced are easier to extinguish.
• B) Partial reinforcement results in greater resistance to extinction than does continuous reinforcement.
• C) Behaviours that have been partially reinforced tend only to occur part of the time.
• D) Partial reinforcement is more effective than continuous reinforcement in the acquisition of new behaviours.

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situational factors in explaining other people's behavior.

Focus-of-Attention Bias

The tendency to pay more attention to certain stimuli or aspects of the environment over others, often affecting judgments and decisions.

Schema-Irrelevant

Information or stimuli that do not fit into an existing cognitive schema or framework, often requiring new schema to be developed or old ones to be modified.

Situational Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to environmental forces facing the person who performed it rather than to that person’s internal state. See also Dispositional attribution.