Thomas and his mother are at the zoo. When they reach the area where the tigers are, Thomas, who has never seen a tiger before, exclaims "Look, Mommy, it's a kitty!" This demonstrates the principle of
A) adaptation.
B) assimilation.
C) accommodation.
D) perception.
B) assimilation. Assimilation is the process of bringing new objects or information into a scheme that already exists.
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Drivers tend to demonstrate safer driving behaviors when a police car is present. The fact that drivers do this implies that the police car has become a(n)
a. reinforcer. b. discriminative stimulus. c. punisher. d. unconditioned stimulus.
Dollard and Miller agreed with Freud that
a. much of our behavior is unconscious. b. the first six years of life are crucial to personality development. c. to be fully functioning person, one must strive for congruence between one's real self and ideal self. d. our behavior is directed by psychosexual urges and fixations.
Generalized anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder marked by repeated episodes of sudden, very intense fear
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
_________ membership is often supplemented by identification with a _________, a larger group of peers with a specific reputation
a. Peer; clique c. Clique; crowd b. Clique; peer d. Peer; crowd