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mrsjacobs44

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on: Jun 19, 2018
Chris' mother offers to give him a cookie, but only if he doesn't throw a temper tantrum in the grocery store. What concept of operant conditioning is at work here?
 
  a. positive reinforcement
  b. negative reinforcement
  c. extinction
  d. conditioned stimulus and conditioned response

Question 2

The major limitation of one-way experimental designs is that they only allow researchers to look at one ______ at a time.
 
  A) control group
  B) dependent variable
  C) independent variable
  D) type of participant


canderson530

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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C


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