AP PSYCHOLOGY

LEARNING

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Nathan, a teenager, learns how to change the tires of his bike by watching his father do it. This is an example of ____
A
social learning
B
operant conditioning
C
classicalconditioning
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Social learning theories emphasize the importance of the social context and posit that individuals can learn by observing others’ actions and whether these individuals are positively or negatively reinforced when exhibiting aggressive behaviors.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first step in the scientific method is asking a question you want to answer. This question will include one of the key starters: how, what, when, why, where, who or which. The question you ask should also be measurable and answerable through experimentation.

Detailed explanation-3: –Social-cognitive theorists believe we learn many of our behaviors either through conditioning or by observing and imitating others.-They also emphasize the importance of mental processes: What we think about a situation affects our resulting behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Latent learning is c) Learning that is not immediately reflected in performance and is only evident in certain contexts.

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