Question

Art has doting parents who praise him every time he sits down and studies. Ben has parents who praise him every now and then when he studies. A learning theorist would predict that if both sets of parents stopped giving encouragement for studying, ______________ would continue studying longer because behaviors rewarded on a ______________ schedule persist longer.

a. Art; partial
b. Art; continuous
c. Ben; partial
d. Ben; continuous

Answer 1

Ben would study longer: it is actually likely that he would not notice immediately that that his parents stopped rewarding him, so he would not stop his routine.

Also his behaviour is rewarded on a partial schedule: not always.

The correct answer is c.