Galileo Once Said, "All Truths Are Easy to Understand Once

question 115

Multiple Choice

Galileo once said, "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." This is best representative of the:

• A) "what you see is all there is" phenomenon.
• B) representativeness heuristic.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) confirmation bias.

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Definitions:

Secondary Reinforcement

A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer, such as praise, tokens, or money.

Operant Conditioning

A technique in education where the potency of an action is transformed by the use of encouragements or punishments.

Classical Conditioning

A behavioral conditioning process where the continual pairing of two stimuli results in the first stimulus eventually eliciting a reaction initially brought about by the second stimulus.

Fixed-interval

In operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement where the first response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed.