Thorndike's Rule That Actions Resulting in Good Outcomes Will Be

question 29

Multiple Choice

Thorndike's rule that actions resulting in good outcomes will be repeated and bad outcomes will NOT be repeated is known as the:

• A) mass action rule.
• B) law of effect.
• C) tenet of behavioral reciprocity.
• D) operant theory of cognition.

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Definitions:

Z-test

A statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant difference between the mean of a sample and the mean of a population, or between the means of two samples, assuming a normal distribution.

T-test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups or samples to see if they are significantly different from each other.

Population Variances

A measure of the spread of a population's data points from its mean.

Test Statistic

A value derived from sample data, used in statistical hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.