Operant Conditioning Would Be Rather Limited If Every New Situation

question 4

Multiple Choice

Operant conditioning would be rather limited if every new situation required learning a new response. However, this is not the case because of __________, which allows us to "spread" learning from one situation to another.

• A) generalization
• B) partial reinforcement
• C) second-order conditioning
• D) discrimination

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Definitions:

Chi-Squared Test

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant association between two categorical variables.

Nominal Variables

Variables that represent categories with no intrinsic ranking or order, such as gender, nationality, or brand names.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of values in a calculation that are free to vary without violating any constraints.

Contingency Table

A tabular method to display the frequency distribution of variables along with their joint distribution.