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Title: Fred sleeps soundly. His alarm makes a loud beeping noise every morning at 7:00AM. Fred's getting ...
Post by: limoncellus on Mar 9, 2018
Fred sleeps soundly. His alarm makes a loud beeping noise every morning at 7:00AM. Fred's getting out of
   bed and turning off the alarm is an example of____________.
 
  a. positive reinforcement c. punishment
   b. negative reinforcement d. aversive conditioning

Question 2

A researcher administers an antidepressant drug to a group of depressed patients and
   over a period of time they improve.
 
  The researcher claims that their improvement is due to
   the drug, even though she did not control for outside factors such as improved emotional
   support from friends, or natural improvement over time. This study lacks ______.
   a. analogue validity c. internal validity
   b. construct validity d. external validity

Question 3

Stimuli that increase the frequency of a behavior when they are removed are called ______.
 
  a. positive reinforcers c. punishers
   b. negative reinforcers d. aversive conditioners

Question 4

Experiments lack internal validity when they fail to control for other factors, called
   ______ that might pose rival hypotheses for the results.
 
  a. confounds c. blinds
   b. placebos d. alternatives


Title: Fred sleeps soundly. His alarm makes a loud beeping noise every morning at 7:00AM. Fred's getting ...
Post by: imascholar on Mar 9, 2018
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