When You Perform _____ Speaking You Run the Greatest Risk

question 4

Multiple Choice

When you perform _____ speaking you run the greatest risk of forgetting parts of your speech and awkwardly searching for words in front of your audience.

• A) impromptu
• B) memorized
• C) manuscript
• D) extemporaneous

Understand different reinforcement schedules (fixed-ratio, variable-ratio, fixed-interval, variable-interval) and their applications.

Identify discriminative stimuli and their role in signaling appropriate conditions for operant responses.

Describe the concepts of stimulus generalization and discrimination in operant conditioning.

Explain the processes of acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery in operant conditioning.

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Definitions:

Retrieval Cues

Stimuli or prompts that aid the recall of information stored in memory.

Serial Position Effects

A memory-related phenomenon where people tend to recall the first and last items in a series better than the middle items.

Sensory Memories

The shortest-term element of memory, allowing the retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Rehearsal

A cognitive process involving the conscious repetition of information to be remembered, facilitating its transfer to long-term memory.