The Key in Distinguishing Between Reinforcers and Punishments to Keep

question 25

Multiple Choice

The key in distinguishing between reinforcers and punishments to keep in mind is that reinforcers are intended to increase the likelihood of a desired behavior whereas punishments are intended to decrease the likelihood of an undesired behavior.In _______________, the term positive refers to the addition of a stimulus rather than the notion that something is good or beneficial.Likewise, the term negative refers to the removal of a stimulus rather than being used to denote something that is bad or harmful.

• A) prevention
• B) treatment
• C) reality therapy
• D) operant conditioning

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Definitions:

Confidence Intervals

A gamut of values, developed from the statistics of a sampling, with a high chance of containing the value of an unknown population parameter.

Interval Center

Refers to the midpoint of an interval, representing the average of its upper and lower bounds.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, that is used to estimate the true value of a population parameter with a specified level of confidence.

Variance

A statistical measure that represents the degree of spread in a dataset or the variability of the observations from the average.