When We Remove an Unpleasant Stimulus by Making a Response

question 80

Multiple Choice

When we remove an unpleasant stimulus by making a response, we are experiencing

• A)shaping.
• B)extinction.
• C)negative reinforcement.
• D)positive reinforcement.

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average of all observations or data points in a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Population Mean

The average of all observations or values in a total population, representing the central value around which the figures in the population distribute.

Sample Statistic s

Calculated value (such as mean or standard deviation) from a sample of data, used to infer characteristics of the entire population.

Standard Error

A measure of the statistical accuracy of an estimate, calculated as the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic.