When You Were First Learning to Make Your Bed,your Parents

question 33

Multiple Choice

When you were first learning to make your bed,your parents told you that you did a good job when you got the bedspread pulled up,even though the bed was still a little messy.For the next week they showed you how to be a little neater each time you made the bed.What operant conditioning procedure did your parents use?

• A)generalization
• B)extinction
• C)shaping
• D)punishment

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Definitions:

Chebysheff's Theorem

A statistical theorem that provides a minimum probability for how much data falls within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean, applicable for any data distribution.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Variance

Variance measures the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data is.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance.