Which Example Most Clearly Shows That an Animal's Biological Predispositions

question 34

Multiple Choice

Which example most clearly shows that an animal's biological predispositions can affect the ease of learning an association

• A) Garcia's rats drinking sweet water that had been paired with shock 
• B) Skinner's rats pressing levers in an operant chamber 
• C) Pavlov's dogs learning to salivate to a tone 
• D) Thorndike's cats escaping a puzzle box

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

How likely different outcomes of a statistic are, based on data collected randomly.

T-statistic

A type of statistic used in hypothesis testing, calculated from sample data to assess the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis.

Z-score

A Z-score is a statistical measurement describing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of a data set, used in standardizing data and for hypothesis testing.

Theoretical Distribution

A mathematical function that represents the possible values and their associated probabilities of a random variable.