A Student Can Expect the Teacher to Answer His Questions

question 631

Multiple Choice

A student can expect the teacher to answer his questions more completely if he comes to her office during her office hours than asking her the questions in the cafeteria.Learning to expect that a particular response will have a certain effect at one time and not another illustrates

• A) the interactionist view of operant conditioning.
• B) operant desensitization.
• C) Thorndike's law of association.
• D) the informational view of operant conditioning.

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Definitions:

Independent Variable

In research, the variable that is manipulated to observe its effect on a dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

The dependent variable is the variable being tested and measured in an experiment or study, whose value is expected to change as a result of manipulations to the independent variable(s).

Independent Variable

is a factor or condition that is intentionally manipulated or varied by researchers to observe its effect on a dependent variable in an experiment.