Author Question: Art has doting parents who praise him every time he sits down and studies. Ben has parents who ... (Read 64 times)

Tazate · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Art has doting parents who praise him every time he sits down and studies. Ben has parents who praise him every now and then when he studies. A learning theorist would predict that if both sets of parents stopped giving encouragement for studying, ____ would continue studying longer because behaviors rewarded on a ____ schedule persist longer.

a. Art; partial
b. Art; continuous
c. Ben; partial
d. Ben; continuous

Question 2

Serena is praised for every art project she brings home from school. Once this kind of continuous reinforcement is discontinued, we can predict that Serenas reinforced behavior will extinguish ____.

a. gradually
b. intermittently
c. rapidly
d. slowly