Question

Joey put a quarter in the gumball machine only to find that the machine was not working. he continued to turn the dial on the machine in the hope that he would retrieve a gumball. joey's behavior is called ____________.

Answer 1

It is called the persistence response where a person tends to be more pushy and tries to pursue something even if there is no hope or there is no likely chance of having it. It tends to increase the response in order to try to gain the thing that the person is meaning to have. It could be seen above as Joe's behavior resembles that way.