You Are Going Up in an Elevator That Is Accelerating

question 79

Multiple Choice

You are going up in an elevator that is accelerating upward on Earth. Suppose you were to go in an elevator with the same acceleration on Mars. How would your apparent weight on Mars compare to your apparent weight on Earth?

• A) It would be smaller.
• B) It would be larger.
• C) It would be exactly the same, non-zero value.
• D) It would be zero.
• E) It would depend on my mass.

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Definitions:

Aversion Therapy

A behavioral treatment method that uses negative stimuli to reduce the appeal of undesirable habits or behaviors.

Operant Conditioning

The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.

Unpleasant Stimulus

Any object, event, or situation that is undesirable or discomforting to an individual, often leading to avoidance behavior.

Modeling

The process of learning behavior by observing and imitating others, as proposed in Bandura's social learning theory.