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The abbreviation CS stands for __________.

Ella has a very generous boss who occasionally brings in gift cards for his workers. He does this for no particular reason; it is just a nice way to keep people motivated. Ella never knows when she is going to get a special bonus from her boss. Ella’s boss is reinforcing his workers according to a __________ schedule.

The concept of confirmation bias specifically assumes that we are most likely to believe __________.

When given a list of items to remember, you are more likely to remember the items __________ of the list.

The partial reinforcement effect refers to the fact that a response that is reinforced after some, but not all, correct responses will be __________ a response that receives continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response).

A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep after they become sick from the bait he leaves. The farmer is attempting to apply the research of __________ to accomplish this.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of retrieval cues?

A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is __________ and thus __________ the probability of a response.

Using the partial report method, Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory to be around __________.

John Watson offered a live, white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the __________ in his study.