Fatima Has Developed a Habit of Taking Longer and Longer

question 620

Multiple Choice

Fatima has developed a habit of taking longer and longer "breaks" to watch TV when she should be studying.Obviously, TV watching is reinforcing her break taking.To improve her study habits, Fatima could delay reinforcement by studying at the library or some other location a good distance from her TV.In this way, she will remove the reinforcement for "taking breaks." This strategy for breaking bad habits is known as

• A) modeling.
• B) extinction.
• C) shaping.
• D) latent learning.

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Definitions:

Perceptual Constancy

The accurate perception of certain attributes of a distal object, such as its shape, size, and brightness, despite changes in the proximal stimulus caused by variations in our viewing circumstances.

Serial Processing

The act of handling one piece of information at a time, typically in a sequential manner.

Size Constancy

is the perceptual ability to see objects as maintaining the same size despite changes in their distance or the size of the image they cast on the retina.

Gestalt Grouping

The perceptual process by which humans naturally organize stimuli into meaningful groups or wholes, based on principles like similarity, proximity, and closure.