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Collmarie

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Discuss the difference between ontogeny and phylogeny.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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State a similarity and difference between positive and negative reinforcement.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


nguyenhoanhat

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Ontogeny describes how selection by consequences operates during the lifetime of an individual organism and is considered a conceptual parallel to Darwin's natural selection

Answer to Question 2

Similarity both the operations, positive and negative reinforcement share the same effect on behavior, which is an increase. A difference between the operations positive and negative reinforcement is in the type of stimulus change that accompanies each operation


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