Using evidence presented in the text, evaluate this statement: Two-year-old toddlers go through a stage called the "terrible twos."
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Contrary to popular belief, the concept of the "terrible twos" does not have much evidentiary support.
2. Toddlers show an increase in behaviors such as saying "no" to a parental request or throwing a temper tantrum.
3. However, toddlers are actually more likely to demonstrate cooperative behavior than resistant behavior.
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The process of establishing a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations to it is known as ____________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
According to Marsella (2000), the term _____ was inaccurate because no psychological disorder can escape cultural encoding, shaping, and presentation
a) cultural relativism b) cultural syndromes of distress c) culture-bound syndromes d) cultural display rules
Koffka believed that each environmental event we experienced gave rise to specific activity in the brain that he called a ____; in addition, he called a remnant of this a ____.
a. memory process; memory trace b. memory trace; memory process c. memory process; trace system d. memory engram; trace system
Assume that an abusive caregiver shakes an infant to get her to stop crying. The infant stops crying because of which of the following mechanisms?
The infant is so startled by the shaking that she can't cry. Blood vessels in her brain rupture and neural connections break. Experience-dependent learning has taught her to stop crying. The infant's airway is damaged by the shaking.