Consider an experiment in which a pigeon is placed in a Skinner box with a button on the wall. The cage contains a small green light that is turned on and off intermittently throughout the day. When the pigeon pecks the button when the green light is on, the behavior is reinforced with food. When it pecks the button when the green light is off, the behavior is not reinforced. The pigeon soon learns that button pecking will be rewarded only when the green light is on. In this scenario, the green light is a(n).

Does the weight loss program have practical significance? a. no, the program is not practically significant because the results are likely to occur even if the weight loss program has no effect. b. yes, the program is practically significant because the results are too unlikely to occur by chance. c. yes, the program is practically significant because the amount of lost weight is large enough to be considered practically significant. d. no, the program is not practically significant because the amount of weight lost is trivial.

One hospital ceo insists on including performance data in the hospital’s annual report. “we do very well on most measures, except for one or two, but we put those in anyway,” she says. “we want to hold ourselves accountable.” does this practice demonstrate effective or ineffective leadership?

Explain why methicillin resistant staphlococcus aureus (mrsa) is more prevalent now than it was only 30 years ago. a. antibiotics cause mutations in staphlococcus aureus that lead to an increase in the number of methicillin-resistant strains. b. methicillin resistance causes an infection to spread more rapidly.c. frequent and inappropriate use of methicillin-type antibiotics has provided selective pressure that has resulted in an increase in the proportion of methicillin-resistant strains of staphlococcus aureus.d. diseases like aids have made people more vulnerable to infections from staphlococcus aureus.