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In a survey about 9/11, pollsters found that the percentage of Americans aged 50 and over who believed that luck was the major reason there had not been another large attack since 9/11 was nearly double the percentage of Americans aged 18 to 29 who expressed the same belief. What is this an example of?


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Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the strength of a behavior is modified by its consequences, such as rewards or punishments.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process through which a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears as a result of the conditioned stimulus being presented without reinforcement.

High Steady Rates

Constant and uniform frequencies or levels maintained over a period of time.

Continuous Reinforcement

A learning process in which a behavior is reinforced every time it occurs, leading to rapid learning.

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