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Discuss Institutional Review Boards.What are they,what is their purpose? Why would you be interested in an IRB's operating procedures if you were conducting research?


Definitions:

Watson's Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that all human behaviors can be conditioned, put forward by John B. Watson, a pioneer in behaviorism.

Lever Pressing

An action typically used in psychological experiments as a measure of learning or behavior, often involving animals pressing a lever to receive a reward.

Extinction

In psychology, this refers to the slow reduction and eventual vanishing of a learned reaction when the previously associated conditioned stimulus is not combined with the unconditioned stimulus anymore.

Classical Conditioning

The process of learning by linking a naturally occurring stimulus with one introduced externally.

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