Lamar Is Thinking About All the Ways He Can Come

question 50

Multiple Choice

Lamar is thinking about all the ways he can come up with the money he needs to buy the used Yugo he saw advertised in the "Car Trader" yesterday.Lamar is _________.

• A)engaged in wishful thinking
• B)engaged in stupid thinking
• C)working in the evaluation stage of problem-solving
• D)working in the production stage of problem-solving

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Definitions:

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning where a stimulus that was previously neutral becomes a conditioned stimulus by being paired with another conditioned stimulus.

Shaping

A method of teaching new behaviors by rewarding successive approximations toward a desired behavior.

FR Schedule

Fixed Ratio Schedule, a type of reinforcement schedule used in behavioral psychology where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred.

Reinforcement Given

The delivery of a stimulus following a behavior that increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.