Liam wants to investigate the effect of operant conditioning on study habits. He splits a sample of Year 8 students into two groups. Group 1 receives verbal praise and a reward token (positive reinforcement) every time they complete a voluntary online spelling exercise. Group 2 receives no praise or reward tokens. Liam counts the total number of voluntary online spelling exercises completed by each participant over a two-week period.
State a fully operationalised directional (one-tailed) hypothesis for Liam's investigation.
205 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Main features of classical conditioning, Pavlov (1927) salivation in dogs, Main features of operant conditioning, Properties of reinforcement, Behaviour modification and shaping, Main features of social learning theory, Social learning stages, Bandura (1961, 1963) Bobo doll experiments, Bandura (1965) vicarious reinforcement, Learning theories and phobias, Treatments for phobias, Individual differences, and Developmental psychology. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.