Suppose That You Are Working with a Group of Monkeys

question 54

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are working with a group of monkeys. You give some monkeys a small reward (a cucumber) for performing a given task, while you give other monkeys a bigger and better reward (a banana) for performing the exact same task. Research suggests that the monkeys ____ compare their rewards and that, as a result, ____.

• A)will not; neither group will become distressed
• B)will; those receiving cucumbers will become distressed
• C)will; those receiving bananas will become distressed
• D)will; both those receiving cucumbers and those receiving bananas will become distressed

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