Descriptive Statistics Investigate

question 7

Multiple Choice

Descriptive statistics investigate:

• A) the amount of variation within each variable
• B) relationships among variables
• C) whether coefficients are significant
• D) if a pie chart is more appropriate than a bar chart

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Definitions:

Shaping

A behavioral psychology technique of progressively reinforcing behaviors that approximate or lead towards a desired goal behavior.

Conditioned Reinforcement

A process where a stimulus gains the capacity to reinforce desirable behaviors through its association with a primary reinforcer.

Reinforcement

A psychological principle that involves using consequences to strengthen a behavior, making it more likely to occur in the future.

Classical Conditioning

An instructive method involving the repeated pairing of two stimuli; a response, initially elicited by the second stimulus, is in time elicited by the first stimulus independently.