Tricia Knows Dan, and Occasionally Talks to Him on the Phone

question 109

Multiple Choice

Tricia knows Dan, and occasionally talks to him on the phone or invites him to her house with other friends. While working on her senior thesis, she encounters a very hard statistical problem, and Adele tells her that Dan is an expert statistician. Tricia immediately invites him over for dinner. Tricia's change in behavior is most like the changes associated with

• A) reinforcer devaluation.
• B) incentive learning.
• C) S-(R-O) learning.
• D) instinctive drift.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are around the mean.

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A facility dedicated to the production of vehicles, including assembling of parts, painting, and quality control.

Population Means

The average value of a set of characteristics within a population, used often in statistical analysis to infer properties about the population.

Automobile Factory

A large industrial site where automobiles are manufactured through a series of assembly and inspection processes.