Conducting an Experiment Involves Four Stages

question 5

Multiple Choice

conducting an experiment involves four stages. One is reporting the data. What are the other three?

• A) duplicating the experiment
• B) testing the hypothesis
• C) establishing a hypothesis
• D) selecting suitable test subjects
• E) analyzing the data

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Definitions:

Discriminative Operant

An operant behavior that is under the control of a discriminative stimulus

Behavioral Contrast

In a two-choice discrimination task, the increase in response to SD that occurs at the same time as responding to S∆ declines.

Discrimination Learning

Responding in different ways to different stimuli

Generalization Test Stimulus

A stimulus that differs from the original conditioned stimulus and is used to test the extent of stimulus generalization in an experimental setting.