Imagine You Are Travelling Though the Asteroid Belt

question 35

Multiple Choice

Imagine you are travelling though the asteroid belt. Which of the following would you expect to observe?

• A) All asteroids in the asteroid belt have shorter orbital period than Earth.
• B) Asteroids closer to Mars have longer orbital period than those closer to Jupiter.
• C) All asteroids within the asteroid belt have the same orbital period.
• D) Asteroids closer to Mars have shorter orbital periods than those closer to Jupiter.

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Definitions:

Preparedness

A predisposition to quickly learn certain types of behaviors or to associate specific stimuli with certain responses due to evolutionary pressures.

Shaping

A method of training by which successive approximations toward a desired behavior are reinforced to teach a complex behavior.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond only to the actual signal but not to similar stimuli.

Approximations

Incremental steps or behaviors that progressively resemble the target behavior or outcome, used in learning and conditioning.