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Your Instructor Has Organized the Class into Groups of Three

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Your instructor has organized the class into groups of three students each and assigned each group a research project on different aspects of the workings of Congress.Regardless of the individual contributions of each member of the group, all three students of each group will receive the same grade based on the quality of the project.After numerous attempts to organize the group to work on the project, you realize the third student in your group will not participate.Instead, you and the second student get together to finish the project because both of you are very concerned about your final grade in the class.However, you are both angry that the third student is going to benefit from your hard work without contributing.Had the instructor told each group that each student's grade on the project would be based on his or her individual contribution, which problem would the instructor have avoided?

Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning, typically seen in classical conditioning experiments.

Reflexive Response

An automatic, involuntary reaction to a stimulus, not requiring conscious thought.

Stimulus

Any event or situation that evokes a response from an organism.

Observational Learning

A process in which an individual learns new responses by observing the behavior of another (a model) rather than through direct experience; sometimes called vicarious conditioning.