Stopping Bad Behavior by Taking Away Something Good Involves the Application

question 101

Multiple Choice

Stopping bad behavior by taking away something good involves the application of __________.

• A) positive reinforcement
• B) negative reinforcement
• C) positive punishment
• D) negative punishment

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Definitions:

Robust Estimator

An estimate method that is not overly sensitive to outliers or violations of assumptions by the underlying data-generating process.

Normality

In statistics, a condition in which a distribution approximates the normal distribution, characterized by a bell-shaped curve.

Consistent

In statistics, a property of an estimator indicating that as the sample size increases, it converges in probability to the true parameter value.

T Distribution

A statistical distribution type that emerges when calculating the average of a population with a normal distribution, under conditions where there are few samples and the population's standard deviation is not known.