Provide an Appropriate Response

question 87

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-The mean length of a human pregnancy is 266 days, with a standard deviation of 9 days. Use the Empirical Rule to determine the percentage of women whose pregnancies are between 257 and 275 days. (Assume the
Data set has a bell-shaped distribution.)

• A)68%
• B)50%
• C)95%
• D)99.7%

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Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different stimuli or cues, especially in the context of learning and behavior.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Negative Reinforcement

A behavioral principle where the removal of an unfavorable condition strengthens a desired behavior.

Conditioned Stimulus

Conditioned stimulus is a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.