To Save Money for Holiday Presents, a Person Deposits $4

question 7

Short Answer

To save money for holiday presents, a person deposits $4 in a savings account on January 1, and then deposits an additional $4 every week thereafter until Christmas. Write a sequence for the money in that savings account for the first 10 weeks of the year. __________ Write the general term for the sequence above. __________ If there are 50 weeks from January 1 to Christmas, how much money will be available for spending on Christmas presents? $ __________

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked not only by the conditioned stimulus but also by stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus.

Gradual Acquisition

The slow and incremental process of obtaining or developing skills, knowledge, or abilities over time.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response. In biology, the permanent loss of a species.

Fixed-Ratio

A schedule of reinforcement where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses, commonly used in learning and behavior analysis.