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Carlos had been assigned a new task at work. It was new to the company and no on

ID: 3491786 • Letter: C

Question

Carlos had been assigned a new task at work. It was new to the company and no one knew how to get it done. Carlos’s strategy for this task was trial and error. He tried many different solutions. The first one he tried didn’t work and that made him unhappy, so he moved onto the next possible solution. That one didn’t work either, which also made him unhappy, so he moved onto the next one, and he continued on that pattern until he eventually found a solution to the task, which made him very happy because he had been working a long time to find one. He then tried the solution again and it worked again, which also made him happy. At that point he wrote up the solution to share with the rest of the company. Carlos’s actions are best described by the law of:

contingency

Explanation / Answer

Ans : Reinforcement

Reinforcement means learning by interacting with environment . Here carlos used trial and errir to find the solution to the task . He tried multiple attempts , and finally got succeded. So he learnt the solution from the consequences of his actions and not by simple teaching.