Define Instinctive Drift, and Explain Its Implications for Operant Conditioning

question 42

Essay

Define instinctive drift, and explain its implications for operant conditioning.

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Definitions:

Subsidiary Ledger

A detailed ledger containing all of a particular account's transactions, feeding into and supporting a main accounting ledger.

Job Order Cost System

An accounting system that assigns costs to specific production batches or jobs and is used in situations where items are distinct and made to order.

Underapplied Overhead

A situation where the allocated factory overhead for a period is less than the actual overhead costs incurred, indicating that the costs have been underallocated.

Applied Overhead

This refers to the amount of overhead cost assigned to a particular cost object, like a product or project, based on a predetermined rate or formula.