According to B. F. Skinner, __________ will increase the frequency of a behavior and __________ will decrease the frequency of a behavior
A) punishment; reinforcement
B) reinforcement; punishment
C) modeling; reinforcement
D) punishment; imitation
B
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The Turners have two children. Their son Ike is a 10-year-old concrete operational thinker. Their daughter Tina is a 14-year-old formal operational thinker. Describe three different situations in which Ike and Tina would respond differently based on their current stages of thinking. Be sure to describe both the situation and the responses
What will be an ideal response?
Ellis, Boyce, and their colleagues proposed that individual differences in children's _____ is an important factor in determining children's long-term reactions to stress
a. biological sensitivity to context c. effortful control b. social referencing d. personality
What happens when researchers induce mortality salience using essay writing procedures?
a. Participants motivation states are not changed. b. Participants are increasingly motivated to defend their own worldview. c. Participants decrease their sense of attachment to their families. d. Participants are motivated to change their perceptions of death.
In a longitudinal study, students who were more susceptible to their close friends' influence at the study's outset were more likely to
a. have problems with drugs and alcohol one year later. b. be well adjusted one year later. c. be more dependent one year later. d. be more independent one year later.