Author Question: Suppose you work at a nice restaurant downtown. You work hard, bus tables quickly, and refill the ... (Read 137 times)

armygirl · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Suppose you work at a nice restaurant downtown. You work hard, bus tables quickly, and refill the customers' drinks when the other wait staff are busy. You do more than your fair share of work with a smile. However, your boss gives a customer service award to a lazy waiter who doesn't work as hard as you do. Although this colleague contributes very little to the restaurant, his father used to be on the local football team and the boss is very interested in this fact. This example is most similar to the process of

A) blocking.
B) higher-order conditioning.
C) latent inhibition.
D) sensory preconditioning.

Question 2

Sol was given a prize at school one day. Although the prize was given by both the teacher (whom he knew well) and the principal (whom he didn't know), Sol repeatedly thanked only the teacher. This is an example of

A) latent inhibition.
B) blocking.
C) higher-order conditioning.
D) sensory preconditioning.