Patricia wants to increase the amount of time that her son T…

Patricia wants to increase the amount of time that her son Trevor spends reading. She tells Trevor that for every hour he spends reading (up to a maximum of 10 hours per week), she’ll add $5 to his weekly allowance. Patricia finds that Trevor quickly starts reading more than he had before. Patricia has used what form of operant conditioning to alter Trevor’s behavior?

Jackie loves watching science fiction shows and writing fan…

Jackie loves watching science fiction shows and writing fan fiction. She posts her most recent story online one evening. When she wakes up, she finds a comment from a reader saying that her plot was almost identical to an old episode of Doctor Who (a science fiction program that Jackie had watched all of the episodes of several years ago). Based upon this, what memory error had Jackie most likely experienced? 

Danica is the coach of a rowing team. She thinks that her ro…

Danica is the coach of a rowing team. She thinks that her rowers could try a bit harder than they are. As such, she installs a force gauge that allows her to monitor how hard each individual member of the team is rowing. She finds that her team improves by 10% after she installs the force gauges. The fact that Danica’s rowing team rowed harder when each of their individual efforts was being monitored as compared to when only the team performance was being monitored is most consistent with: