If You Determine the Number of Days in a Year

question 102

Multiple Choice

If you determine the number of days in a year with solar time and sidereal time how would they vary?

• A)They wouldn't; a year is always about 365 1/4 days,and the 1/4 day is taken up with leap years.
• B)A year measured in sidereal time would be about one day longer than a year based on solar time.
• C)A year measured in sidereal time would be about one day shorter than a year based on solar time.
• D)A year measured in sidereal time would be about 15 minutes different than a solar day,so the difference only accumulates over time.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A training process resulting from the connection between a stimulus present in the environment and one that occurs naturally.

Partial Reinforcement

A conditioning strategy where only a portion of responses are reinforced, making the learned behavior more resistant to extinction.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning by which a stimulus that already elicits a conditioned response is used as a conditioned stimulus to condition a response to a new stimulus.

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs without any obvious reinforcement or immediate demonstration of the learned behavior or knowledge, becoming apparent only when a situation calls for it.