There Are 36 Chocolates in a Box, All Identically Shaped $\frac { 4 } { 21 }$

question 129

Multiple Choice

There are 36 chocolates in a box, all identically shaped. There 6 are filled with nuts, 14 with caramel, and 16 aresolid chocolate. You randomly select one piece, eat it, and then select a second piece. Find the probability ofselecting 2 solid chocolates in a row.

• A) \(\frac { 4 } { 21 }\)
• B) \(\frac { 16 } { 81 }\)
• C) \(\frac { 4 } { 315 }\)
• D) \(\frac { 5 } { 27 }\)

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which an innate response to a potent stimulus becomes transferred to a previously neutral stimulus.

Latent Learning

A form of learning that occurs without any obvious reinforcement of the behavior or associations that are learned, often becoming apparent when there is an incentive to demonstrate it.

Instinctive Drift

Instinctive drift refers to the tendency of an animal to revert to instinctual behaviors even after learning new behaviors via operant conditioning.

Instinctive Drift

The phenomenon where established habits learned through operant conditioning start to revert to innate behavioral patterns.