Bart uses an old cigarette lighter that has become unreliable. It usually takes from one to 10 flicks to make it work. When the lighter is out of fluid, it will not work at all. By the time that Bart figures out the problem, he has tried flicking it 15 to 20 times. This situation illustrates the principle that
a) variable-reinforcement schedules will produce
the greatest persistence.
b) interval-reinforcement schedules will produce the fastest performance.
c) fixed-reinforcement schedules will produce the fastest performance.
d) intermittent-reinforcement schedules will aid prior learning.

Which of the following statements about the shang dynasty’s system of writing is false? a. no evidence of the writing system has survived. b. the shang often wrote on bamboo parchment. c. the writing system had over 3,000 characters. d. the writing system developed from a system of pictographs.

If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work, then the story of feldman’s bagel business lies at the very intersection of morality and economics. yes, a lot of people steal from him, but the vast majority, even though no is watching over them, do not. this outcome may surprise some people—including feldman’s economist friends, who counseled him twenty years ago that his honor-system scheme would never work. but it would not have surprised adam smith. in fact, theme of smith’s first book, the theory of moral sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. “how selfish soever man may be supposed,” smith wrote, “there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.” which best describes the authors’ purpose in using a quotation from adam smith’s book the theory of moral sentiments? to highlight their knowledge of scottish philosophers to prove that people are inherently dishonest to demonstrate that incentive is the driving force behind cheating to lend credibility and additional support to their conclusion

The theory that human infants are born with a rudimentary knowledge of the world and they use their experience to expand this knowledge underlies the hypothesis.