Natasha Finds That Men Speak More Often in the Classroom

question 95

Multiple Choice

Natasha finds that men speak more often in the classroom than do women, and that this is true both when they are assigned to sit in the front of the room and the back of the room. Natasha's study has found a statistically significant effect for

• A) the independent variable she manipulated.
• B) a subject variable.
• C) the conceptual variable.
• D) the experimental but not the correlational variable.

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Definitions:

Reinforcement Contingency

A condition where the delivery of a reinforcement depends on the occurrence of a specific behavior.

Skinner Box

A controlled environment used to study behavior conditioning by training animals through rewards and punishments.

Programmed

Designed or set up to follow a specific sequence of operations or instructions to achieve a particular outcome.

Emitted

The act of sending or discharging something, such as light, heat, or a behavior, often in response to specific stimuli or conditions.