Provide an Appropriate Response

question 4

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-Combine into a single fraction and simplify:

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Definitions:

Cognitive Dissonance

A psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the frequency of an organism's behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Positive Reinforcement

A process in operant conditioning where a behavior is followed by a rewarding stimulus, increasing the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.

Cognitive Schema

Mental structures that an individual uses to organize knowledge and guide cognitive processes and behavior.