BFSkinner Appears to Have Discovered the Partial Reinforcement Effect When

question 22

Multiple Choice

B.F.Skinner appears to have discovered the partial reinforcement effect when he was running a simple conditioning experiment,ran low on food pellets,and began reinforcing only a percentage of responses he otherwise would have reinforced 100% of the time.This is an example of:

• A)capitalizing on a paradoxical incident
• B)serendipity
• C)reasoning by analogy
• D)the hypothetico-deductive method

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