In One of His Experiments,Skinner Put Several Pigeons in Skinner

question 86

Multiple Choice

In one of his experiments,Skinner put several pigeons in Skinner boxes,set the food dispenser to deliver food every 15 seconds,and left the birds to their own devices.Later,he returned and found the birds engaging in odd,idiosyncratic behaviors,such as pecking aimlessly in a corner or turning in circles.Skinner referred to these behaviors as:

• A)inadvertent.
• B)nonsensical.
• C)unexplainable.
• D)superstitious.

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Definitions:

Sum of Squares for Regression

A measure of the variation explained by the regression line, indicating the goodness of fit of the model.

Sum of Squares for Error

The sum of the squared differences between the observed value and the estimated value in a dataset, reflecting the discrepancy or error within the model used.

SSR

Sum of Squares due to Regression, a measure in statistical analysis that quantifies the variation explained by the independent variables in a regression model.

SSE

The sum of squared errors, a measure used in statistics to quantify the discrepancy between the observed and the predicted values in a model.