Applicants Looking for a Job at a Restaurant Chain May

question 18

Multiple Choice

Applicants looking for a job at a restaurant chain may apply to be a server or a kitchen worker. The table below summarizes the number of male and female applicants hired for the jobs for which they applied. The proportion of female applicants for a job as kitchen worker that were hired is:

• A)0.1.
• B)0.375.
• C)0.4.
• D)0.625.

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Definitions:

Partial Reinforcement

A conditioning schedule in which a reward is not given every time the desired response is made, enhancing resistance to extinction of the behavior.

Successive Approximations

A process in behaviorism where behaviors are broken down into small, achievable steps towards a final goal, often used in learning and conditioning.

Delayed Reinforcement

The presentation of a reward following a behavior after a significant period of time, which can impact the effectiveness of the reinforcement.

Classical Conditioning

A learning strategy that incorporates the frequent association of two stimuli, culminating in the first stimulus independently eliciting a response that was at first triggered by the second stimulus.