In What Way Did Britain's Political and Social Environment Contribute

question 9

Multiple Choice

In what way did Britain's political and social environment contribute to the industrial revolution?

• A) It encouraged women to participate in creating new technology.
• B) It allowed merchants and industrialists to invest heavily in such inventions as steam power.
• C) It encouraged land-owning nobility to grow crops for food for the working class population.
• D) It restricted access to rapidly expanding international and internal markets.

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Definitions:

Variable-Ratio Schedule

A reinforcement schedule in which a response is rewarded after an unpredictable number of responses, making the reward random.

Fixed-Ratio

A type of reinforcement schedule in operant conditioning where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred.

Discriminative Stimulus

In behavioral psychology, a stimulus that signals the availability of reinforcement or punishment, guiding the organism's responses.

Reinforcer

Something that increases the likelihood of a behaviour by either presenting a positive stimulus or removing a negative one following the behaviour.