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evelyn o bentley

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Social psychologist B. F. Skinner developed __________, in which animals learned to press levers to obtain rewards, such as food pellets.
 
  A) the Skinner box
  B) autoethnography
  C) animal testing
  D) laboratory experimentation

Question 2

An instructor developed a study to determine ways of producing more participation in her classes. In one class, she provided free doughnuts to students every day, whereas in another she gave them nothing.
 
  She had an assistant takes notes on the number of comments and questions students made in each class. Which class represents the control group?
 
  A) the class not given the doughnuts
  B) the class given the doughnuts
  C) neither the class given nor not given the doughnuts
  D) both the class given and not given the doughnuts


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A


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