To alleviate bed wetting, special sheets connected to an alarm are placed on the child's bed. When the child's full bladder releases the first droplets of urine onto the special sheet, the alarm will sound and awaken the child. Through this pairing of a loud alarm with a full bladder, the child will learn to awaken to the full bladder. This illustrates the use of which of the following in
alleviating a problem behavior?
a. transference
b. classical conditioning
c. operant conditioning
d. observational learning
B
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a. conjunctive meaning b. denotative meaning c. relational meaning d. connotative meaning
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a. five percent b. 15 percent c. 25 percent d. 35 percent
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a. it is set early in life. b. It depends on one’s way of seeing the world and having the skills both to find resources and to act effectively. c. early conclusions were not supported. d. only two of the three personal qualities discovered in the early work were found to be really related to the capacity to deal with stress.
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A. maternal alcohol consumption B. dietary food additives C. prenatal smoking D. low birth weight