Tim Tells You That the Best Way to Make Friends

question 14

Multiple Choice

Tim tells you that the best way to make friends is by opening the conversation with a joke. He can easily recall all the friends he met by telling a joke and also the times he opened with chitchat and didn't befriend the person. If you were concerned that Tim was making the blind spot bias, what would you ask him?

• A)What about the times you opened with a joke and didn't become friends with the person?
• B)Do you think the times you made friends by telling jokes might come more easily to mind?
• C)Have you tested this conclusion systematically?
• D)Did you go into conversations where you opened with jokes thinking that you would make friends?

Recognize the application of conditioning principles in modifying behaviors.

Grasp the significance of discriminative stimuli and their role in operant conditioning.

Acknowledge the psychological impacts of conditioned stimuli and responses.

Understand the role of observational learning and its distinction from operant and classical conditioning.

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