Which Situation Do You Predict to Prompt the Release of More

question 75

Essay

Which situation do you predict to prompt the release of more erythropoietin into the blood: anemia or polycythemia? Explain.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A way of changing the force of a behavior using rewards or penalties as influencing factors.

Shaping

A method in behavioral psychology where reinforces guide an organism's behavior towards a desired goal through successive approximations.

Successive Approximations

A behavioral training process that rewards actions that progressively more closely resemble the desired behavior.

Generalization

The tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli.