Another name for operant conditioning is instrumental learning‚ introduced by Edward L. Thorndike 1913. Thorndike began studying “animal thinking”. Cat experiment: cat would perform a specific response‚ such as pulling a wire or a lever and was rewarded food after each escape. “law of effect” behavior is influenced by its consequences First book published‚ the behaviour of organisms 1938. Skinner demonstrated that organisms tend to repeat those responses that are followed by favourable consequences
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Chapter 13. Pricing concepts for establishing value Price – the overall sacrifice a consumer is willing to make to acquire a specific product or service. This sacrifice necessarily includes the money that must be paid to the seller to acquire the item‚ but it also may involve other sacrifices‚ whether nonmonetary‚ like the value of the time necessary to acquire the product or service‚ or monetary‚ like travel costs‚ taxes‚ shipping costs‚ and so forth‚ all of which the buyer must give up to take
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history is the study of everyone and everything that has existed from the earliest point studied to present day. It includes all areas of the world and everything that has happened‚ often going into why things happen‚ and what happens afterwards. 2. What interests you about studying history? What does not? Studying history is interesting to me because you can see the difference from other areas and eras and compare them to present day. I also love to learn about wars‚ why they started and how
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Chapter 15 Outline * Soil is the relatively thin surface layer of Earth’s crust consisting of minerals and organic matter modified by natural actions like… * Weather * Wind * Water * Organisms * Soil is formed from parent material‚ rock that is slowly broken down or fragmented into smaller particles by… * Weathering Processes Biological * Chemical * Physical * Topography‚ a region’s surface features such as the presence or absence
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Chapter Study Outline I. England and the New World A. Reasons for England’s late entry 1. Protracted religious strife catholics persecuted by edward‚ mary becomes queen-executes protestants‚ mary’s rule makes reconciliation with rome impossible 2. Continuing struggle to subdue Ireland absorbed money and energy directed towards new world B. England and North America 3. Early ventures a. Humphrey Gilbert’s failed Newfoundland colony
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CHAPTER 7 India and Southeast Asia‚ 1500 b.c.e.–1025 c.e. I0. Foundations of Indian Civilization‚ 1500 b.c.e.–300 c.e. A0. The Indian Subcontinent 10. India has three topographical zones: (1) the northern mountainous zone; (2) the Indus and Ganges Basins; and (3) the peninsula. The Vindhya Mountains and the Deccan plateau divide the peninsula from the other two zones. 20. The peninsula itself includes further topographical sub-regions including: (1) tropical Kerala coast in the west; (2)
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Chapter 10 The Open System Interconnection (OIS) reference model is a template and using a network and its resources. Application Layer: Responsible fro interacting with end users. Presentation Layer: Responsible for the coding of data. Session Layer: Responsible for maintaining communication sessions between computers. Transport Layer: Responsible for breaking data into packets and properly transmitting it over the network. Network Layer: Responsible for the logical implementation of the network
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NATIONALISM AND POLITICAL IDENTITIES IN ASIA‚ AFRICA‚ AND LATIN AMERICA During the 1920s and 1930s‚ after the Great War and during the Great Depression‚ intellectuals and political activists in Asia‚ Africa‚ and Latin America challenged the ideological and economic underpinnings of European imperialism and neo-colonialism‚ as nationalist and anti-imperialist movements gained strength on each of these continents. * In Asia‚ Japan’s militarist leaders sought to build national strength through
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a detailed description of one condition of a dissonance experiment‚ is told how a participant behaved in that situation‚ and is asked to predict the attitude of that participant. Self-affirmation: bolstering our identity and self-esteem by taking note of important elements of our identity‚ such as our important values. Self-perception theory: a theory that people come to know their own attitudes by looking at their behavior and the context in which it occurred and inferring what their attitudes
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ch2 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. An operations and supply chain strategy must be integrated with the organization’s corporate strategy. True False 2. One of the competitive dimensions that form the competitive position of a company when planning their strategies is cost. True False 3. One of the competitive dimensions that form the competitive position of a company when planning their strategies is delivery speed. True
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