By Changing the Rules About What Makes a Successful Response

question 82

Multiple Choice

By changing the rules about what makes a successful response, we can gradually, through successive approximations, train an animal or a person to make a chain of responses or to improve a skill. This process is called

• A)shaping.
• B)respondent conditioning.
• C)latent learning.
• D)vicarious classical conditioning.

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Definitions:

Statistical Significance

An attribute of research results when it is extremely unlikely that they could have occurred purely by chance. The standard by which most research is judged as valuable or worthy of being published.

Practical Utility

Refers to the usefulness or applicability of something in real-world situations, often considering efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Case Study

A research method involving an in-depth, detailed examination of a subject or its context.

Ideographic Approach

A method focusing on understanding the unique aspects of individual cases or entities, rather than generalizing from group data.