A Participant Must Give Informed Consent Prior to Taking Part

question 43

True/False

A participant must give informed consent prior to taking part in an experiment.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process where behaviors are influenced by consequences like rewards or punishments.

Classical Conditioning

A training method where a response initially triggered by a second signal is eventually triggered by the first signal alone, due to the consistent pairing of two signals.

Observational Learning

A process of learning that occurs through watching the behaviors of others and the outcomes of those behaviors, as famously proposed by Albert Bandura.

Behavior Therapies

Therapeutic approaches aimed at identifying and changing potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviors, often through conditioning and learning techniques.