The Grade Point Average GPA) of Students Participating in an Experiment

question 20

Multiple Choice

The grade point average GPA) of students participating in an experiment on academic achievement rose over the course of the academic year. The students worked harder to do better in school because they knew that they were being studied. This is an example of :

• A) Selection Effect
• B) The Hawthorne Effect
• C) Central Tendency
• D) Parsimony

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Definitions:

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any prior learning.

Extinction

The weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response; in classical conditioning, it occurs when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus; in operant conditioning, it occurs when a response is no longer followed by a reinforcer.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction.