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The Nursing Student Is Studying Learning Theories

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The nursing student is studying learning theories. He learns that television commercials are an example of which learning theory?


Definitions:

Operant-Conditioning Chamber

A controlled environment used in behavioral psychology to study animal behavior through rewards and punishments.

Puzzle Box

A problem-solving task used in experiments, often with animals, to study learning and behavior.

Shaping

A method used in behavioral psychology to gradually train a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of the desired behavior.

Successive Approximations

A technique in behaviorism where behaviors are broken down into small tasks and each one is mastered in turn leading towards a target behavior.

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