Which of the Following Is an Example of Thorndike's Law

question 214

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of Thorndike's law of effect?

• A) A chicken keeps pecking at a bar even though it is repeatedly shocked immediately afterwards.
• B) A teenager regularly works part-time after school in order to make some spending money.
• C) A ball keeps rolling downhill because of the pull of gravity.
• D) A cat keeps clawing the sofa despite being squirted with water every time it does this.

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Definitions:

Probability Density Function

A function that describes the relative likelihood for a continuous random variable to occur at a particular point.

Continuous Random Variable

A type of random variable that can take an infinite number of values in a continuous range.

Probability Mass Function

A function that gives the probabilities of discrete outcomes.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a value will take one of two independent states under a given number of observations.