If the Charge on a Parallel-Plate Capacitor Is Doubled

question 12

Multiple Choice

If the charge on a parallel-plate capacitor is doubled:

• A)the capacitance is halved
• B)the capacitance is doubled
• C)the electric field is halved
• D)the electric field is doubled
• E)the surface charge density is not changed on either plate

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Definitions:

Delayed Reinforcement

A technique in behavior modification that involves a time delay between the desired response of an organism and the delivery of reward.

Classical Conditioning

An educational approach where two stimuli are persistently paired; the response, initially the result of the second stimulus, eventually becomes the result of the first stimulus alone.

Operant Conditioning

A process of learning in which the dynamics of behavior are adjusted by assigning incentives or penalties.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency.