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A Researcher Studying Alcohol Usage at Colleges and Universities May

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A researcher studying alcohol usage at colleges and universities may investigate and compare alcohol usage of young adults that attend a college or university against those who do not. This is an example of which type of quantitative study?


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Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Learned Helplessness

A belief that nothing one does matters, derived from an experience of random or unpredictable reward and punishment, and theorized to be a basis of depression.

Stimulus-Response Associations

The concept in psychology that behavior is a reaction to environmental stimuli, where specific stimuli elicit specific responses.

John Watson

An American psychologist, regarded as one of the founders of behaviorism, emphasizing the importance of observable behavior over internal phenomena like thoughts and feelings.

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