Operant Response Rates Remain Highest When Individuals Anticipate That Their

question 27

Multiple Choice

Operant response rates remain highest when individuals anticipate that their behavior will actually lead to further reinforcement. This best illustrates the importance of ________ in operant conditioning.

• A) secondary reinforcers
• B) cognitive processes
• C) biological predispositions
• D) intrinsic motivation

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Definitions:

Agreeableness

A personality trait that reflects the extent of a person's warmth and kindness towards others.

Sympathetic

Pertaining to the part of the autonomic nervous system that typically prepares the body for action in stressful situations, activating the fight-or-flight response.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the psyche that is the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

Primitive Instinctive

Primitive instinctive behavior refers to basic, innate responses or actions that are not learned but are present from birth, aimed at survival and reproduction.