While Studying the Concept of Reinforcement, Erica Asked Herself How

question 127

Multiple Choice

While studying the concept of reinforcement, Erica asked herself how reinforcement and punishment differ and what kinds of reinforcement (and punishment) there are; she tried to think of personal examples of the use of reinforcement.Erica is using

• A) elaborative processing.
• B) rote learning.
• C) maintenance rehearsal.
• D) chunking or recoding.

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