Explain how vicarious conditioning might lead to the development of an anxiety reaction
What will be an ideal response?
The person is exposed to someone who literally “models” a fear reaction to a stimulus situation. The observer learns that the situation should be feared and learns what behaviors to exhibit under those conditions.
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The linguistic relativity hypothesis was first proposed by:
A) Benjamin Whorf. B) B. F. Skinner. C) Noam Chomsky. D) Bernard Weiner.
What is a factor?
A. the correlations between subscales on a test B. a concept that may explain why group questions on a test are correlated C. an environmental force that changes the interpretation of test scores D. evidence that a test has construct validity
Which of the following is CORRECT concerning cross-cultural studies on trait theories?
A. No evidence has been found to support these theories. B. Research in this area is too new to report any findings. C. Evidence for these five trait dimensions has been found in several cultures. D. Most cultural research methods are too vague to be validated.
Children tend to rely on the literal meaning of an utterance, even when prosody strongly suggest a nonliteral meaning, in what is known as the __________ bias.
a. categorical b. confirmation c. lexical d. literal