In a Series of Studies by Delgado and Colleagues (2005),participants

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Multiple Choice

In a series of studies by Delgado and colleagues (2005) ,participants chose to share or not share money with their assigned partners based on false written descriptions of their partners' trustworthiness and not the level of sharing actually demonstrated by their partners in the game.These results suggest that:

• A)participants discriminated between the written descriptions and the partner's actual behavior.
• B)cognitive expectancies outweighed actual environmental consequences.
• C)participants were exhibiting latent learning.
• D)sharing was controlled by an intermittent reinforcement effect.

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