Removal of Current or Future Unpleasant Consequences to Increase the Likelihood

question 105

Multiple Choice

Removal of current or future unpleasant consequences to increase the likelihood that someone will repeat a behavior is called _____________.

• A) positive reinforcement
• B) negative reinforcement
• C) punishment
• D) extinction
• E) classical conditioning

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Definitions:

Registered Democrats

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Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, important in inferential statistics for making inferences about a population.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of the entirety of data points in a population.

Student-t

A distribution that looks similar to the normal distribution but has thicker tails, used especially in scenarios of small sample sizes.