The Use of Reinforcement Principles to Modify a Child's Unruly

question 26

Multiple Choice

The use of reinforcement principles to modify a child's unruly behavior reflects the goal of science that deals with

• A)understanding and prediction.
• B)measurement and description.
• C)determinism and teleologic.
• D)application and control.

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Definitions:

Sample Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of observations in a sample dataset around the sample mean.

T Distribution

A family of probability distributions that can be used to develop an interval estimate of a population mean whenever the population standard deviation s is unknown and is estimated by the sample standard deviation s.

Variance

A measure of the spread between numbers in a data set, indicating how much the numbers differ from the mean.

Independent Samples

Samples drawn from different populations without any pairing or matching between the samples.