If You Wanted Your Best Friend to Spend Less Time

question 226

Multiple Choice

If you wanted your best friend to spend less time talking about her boyfriend, you might try frowning every time she started talking about him.In the framework of operant conditioning, your frowning would be:

• A)positive reinforcement
• B)positive punishment
• C)negative reinforcement
• D)negative punishment

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Definitions:

Coefficient of Correlation

A numerical metric that determines the intensity and course of a straight-line association between two variables that can be quantified.

Sample Coefficient

A measure that quantifies some kind of property or behavior, such as variability or correlation, from a sample of a population.

Correlation

Correlation refers to a statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two or more variables fluctuate together. A positive correlation indicates that as one variable increases, the other does too.

Coefficient of Determination

A statistic used in the context of statistical models whose main purpose is to provide a measure of how well observed outcomes are replicated by the model.