You Are a Very Good Skater, but You Did Not

question 612

Multiple Choice

You are a very good skater, but you did not start out that way. Your mother reinforced you for each small improvement you made over several months. This process is known as

• A)shaping.
• B)latent learning.
• C)vicarious classical conditioning.
• D)intermittent conditioning.

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Definitions:

Student T-Distributed

Refers to a family of distributions that arise when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and population standard deviation is unknown.

Normally Distributed

Describes a dataset that forms a bell-shaped curve when graphed, with most values clustering around a central region and thin tails on either end.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points within a population, indicating how much the numbers differ from the population mean.

Sample Mean Difference

Sample mean difference is the arithmetic difference between the means of two samples, used to compare their central tendencies.