Acme,Inc,Produces Widgets

question 82

Multiple Choice

Acme,Inc.,produces widgets.To manufacture a new type of widget,it took 50 hours for the first widget.Acme estimates it has a 90% learning rate.Using the logarithmic approach,calculate the time it will take to manufacture the 60th widget.

• A)26.85 hours
• B)32.70 hours
• C)22.55 hours
• D)21.42 hours

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Definitions:

Extinction

In the context of psychology, it refers to the gradual diminishing of a conditioned response when the reinforcement or the association with a stimulus is removed.

Operant Conditioning

An educational method where the intensity of an action is altered by either encouraging or penalizing it.

Forgetting

The loss of information from long-term memory, often considered a normal process due to various factors like interference, decay, or retrieval failure.

Classical Conditioning

a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is initially elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.