Which of the Following Situations Would Lead to More Starvation

question 192

Multiple Choice

Which of the following situations would lead to more starvation?

• A) a world where everyone grows his or her own food and there is no trade
• B) a world with trade and lots of specialization
• C) a world with immense division of knowledge
• D) a world where only some people specialize in food and everyone else produces something else

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Definitions:

Higher Order Conditioning

A learning process whereby a stimulus that has been conditioned to produce a particular response is used in turn to condition a second stimulus to produce the same response.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response.

Shaping

A behavioral psychology technique that reinforces behavior closer and closer to a desired goal, used in teaching new behaviors.

Step-by-step Reinforcement

The process of enhancing desired behaviors through a systematic approach that rewards successive approximations of the target behavior.