Which of the Following Would Be Classified as a Short-Term

question 44

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be classified as a short-term goal?

• A) Purchasing a house in three years
• B) Buying new clothes this month
• C) Retiring in ten years
• D) Paying for your two-year-old child's college education

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Definitions:

Pleasing

Evoking a sense of happiness or satisfaction.

Threatening

Describes a behavior or communication that implies harm or negative consequences, often used to intimidate or coerce.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in behavioural psychology where the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that naturally produces a behavior, eventually causing the neutral stimulus to elicit that behavior on its own.