I believe the answer is: Primary
For example, let's say take a look at normal employees at a company.
For most of them, the main reason they spend their time to do the job correctly is to obtain money/salary even though they have to spend their time being scolded by unlikable boss.
In the scenario above, we can say that money is the primary reinforcer for the target behavior
Answer:
Explanation:
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England.
Answer:
Confirmation Bias
Explanation:
Confirmation bias is a deep seated tendency to prefer information that confirms our existing positions. The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there is a greater number and weight of instances to be found not true, he either neglects, despises or rejects in order that by this great and pernicious determination the authority of its conclusions may remain inviolate. Confirmation bias is found to be important because it may lead people to hold strongly to false beliefs or give more weight to information that supports their beliefs than is warranted by evidences. This biased approach is largely unintentional and often results in ignoring inconsistent information
This is a well known psychological tendency
"Don't get a bad liver!" ~Explains to Prometheus' punishment from Zeus
Between the years 1778 and 1783, the nations of France and England disputed a war between each other. Both nations were the greatest powers on Earth during that time, and the conflict was a result of both parties trying to beat the other in relation to the amount of colonies they had, specially in America.
It can be said that the biggest winner of this conflict was neither France or England, but the United States of America. The north-american country benefited from the conflict for many years, simply by serving both sides.
