A Contract

question 43

Multiple Choice

A contract

• A)is an example of a side payment
• B)eliminates the possibility of simultaneous exchange
• C)is worthless unless it refers to a perfectly competitive market
• D)often requires one party to do something first,and the other party to do something later
• E)can be enforced through the application of criminal law

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Definitions:

Higher Order Conditioning

A learning process whereby a stimulus that has been conditioned to produce a particular response is used in turn to condition a second stimulus to produce the same response.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response.

Shaping

A behavioral psychology technique that reinforces behavior closer and closer to a desired goal, used in teaching new behaviors.

Step-by-step Reinforcement

The process of enhancing desired behaviors through a systematic approach that rewards successive approximations of the target behavior.