When It Comes to Toxicants, ""The Dose Makes the Poison

question 105

True/False

When it comes to toxicants, ""the dose makes the poison.""

Grasp the principles of discriminative stimuli and stimulus control in operant conditioning.

Understand the concepts and applications of shaping, chaining, and successive approximations in behavioral training.

Recognize the real-world applications and examples of conditioning and shaping behavior in humans and animals.

Identify the impact of immediate reinforcement on behavior and its role in habit formation, such as addiction.

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Definitions:

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

A belief or expectation that influences behaviors in a way that causes the belief to become a reality.

Attribution Theory

A theory focused on how people interpret events and how this relates to their thinking and behavior, specifically how they attribute causes to events and other people's actions.

External Causes

Factors outside an individual that influence events or behaviors, such as environmental conditions or actions from other people.

Internal Causes

Factors or reasons originating within an individual or entity that lead to a specific outcome or behavior.