If Scott Makes a Nonbinding Promise to Lee and Then

question 18

Multiple Choice

If Scott makes a nonbinding promise to Lee and then fails to fulfill it:

• A) Lee can expect contract law to provide a remedy
• B) Lee can expect contract law to provide a remedy if he lives East of the Mississippi
• C) Lee can expect that he will have to go to the Supreme Court for a remedy
• D) Lee is now legally allowed to force Scott to fulfill his promise
• E) none of the other choices are correct

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Definitions:

Reinforcement Contingencies

Conditions in which the delivery of rewards or punishments are contingent upon a specific behavior, used to increase or decrease the likelihood of that behavior's occurrence.

Shaping

A method of teaching new behaviors by successively reinforcing behaviors that approximate the target behavior.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A type of learning where a new stimulus becomes associated with an already conditioned stimulus, resulting in the same conditioned response.

Spontaneous Recovery

Following a period without exposure to the conditioned stimulus, a conditioned response that had previously disappeared resurfaces.