A Store Manager Gives a Pre-Employment Examination to New Employees

question 243

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A store manager gives a pre-employment examination to new employees.The test is scored from 1 to 100.He has data on their sales at the end of one year measured in dollars.He wants to know if there is any linear relationship between pre-employment examination score and sales.An appropriate test to use is the t-test of the population correlation coefficient.

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Definitions:

Schedule of Reinforcement

The plan for timing and frequency of reinforcement given to subjects in a conditioning experiment to establish or modify behavior.

Variable Ratio

A schedule of reinforcement where a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses, promoting high and steady response rates.

Fixed Interval

A schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed, in behavior studies.

Punishment by Removal

A behavior modification technique involving the withdrawal of a desirable stimulus to decrease the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.