Skinner Discovered That a Pigeon Will Peck at a Button

question 45

Multiple Choice

Skinner discovered that a pigeon will peck at a button more often if the pecking is rewarded with a food pellet than if it is not rewarded at all.In Skinner's study,the food pellet is the:

• A) dependent variable.
• B) experimental variable.
• C) the independent variable.
• D) correlation.

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Poisson Distribution

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