Does Giving an Incentive Really Work on Improving Exam Scores

question 40

Essay

Does giving an incentive really work on improving exam scores? For example,consider the following treatments to measure the use of incentives.
Treatment 1: No incentive
Treatment 2: Incentive given to all
Treatment 3: Incentive given only if a certain score is received
For this experiment,assume all subjects are seniors at a university.Explain why blinding would or would not be necessary in this experiment.

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Definitions:

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the process by which patients displace onto their analysts feelings and ideas which derive from previous figures in their lives.

Psychodynamic Therapy

A therapeutic approach that emphasizes unconscious processes and past experiences in shaping current behavior and feelings.

Counterconditioning

A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.

Major Depression

A mental disorder characterized by a persistent and severe low mood that is accompanied by low self-esteem and by a loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.