A student engages in disruptive behavior in the classroom in order to get attention from the teacher. In order to decrease the disruptive behavior, the teacher gives the student frequent attention so that receiving attention by engaging in disruptive behavior is less reinforcing. Which antecedent control strategy is the teacher using to decrease the student's disruptive behavior?
a. removing cues for the problem behavior
b. decreasing response effort
c. removing the discriminative stimulus
d. presenting an abolishing operation
d
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Regarding the experimental method, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The control group and the experimental group are treated exactly alike except for the condition you intentionally vary. b. The condition that the experimenter intentionally varies is called the dependent variable. c. The animals or people whose behavior is investigated are referred to as experimental subjects. d. Human subjects whose behavior is investigated are also called the participants.
The majority of fetishists are ____
a. single c. female b. married d. male
For most cultures, children learn when it is appropriate to speak and when it is best to keep their thoughts to themselves by the time they reach ______
middle childhood || early childhood || toddlerhood || late infancy || || ||
A researcher is interested in learning more about the relations among children's attitudes toward their teachers, their helping behaviors, the quality of their friendships, and their ethnicity and gender
Which of the following research methods would likely be most effective? A) naturalistic observation B) case study C) experimentation D) path analysis