Which of the Following Is an Example of Negative Reinforcement

question 425

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?

• A) You clean your room because your mother promised you a chocolate bar if you do.
• B) You clean your room because you can't stand hearing your mother nag at you anymore.
• C) You clean your room because your mother said she's take your Playstation away if you didn't.
• D) You clean your room because your mother said she'd smack your butt if you didn't.

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Definitions:

Utility-Maximizing

A principle or approach in economics that suggests individuals allocate their resources in a way that maximizes their satisfaction or utility.

Heuristics

Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that simplify decision-making processes, often at the cost of perfect accuracy or thoroughness.

Self-Serving Bias

A common tendency for individuals to attribute their successes to internal factors while attributing failures to external factors.

Cognitive Biases

Misperceptions or misunderstandings that cause systematic errors. Most result either from heuristics that are prone to systematic errors or because the brain is attempting to solve a type of problem (such as a calculus problem) for which it was not evolutionarily evolved and for which it has little innate capability.