A psychologist would use shaping for what purpose?
a. To train an animal to make a new response
b. To increase social interactions among people from diverse backgrounds
c. To produce an optical illusion
d. To measure people's attitudes and personalities
a
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Freud believed that his psychoanalytic techniques would lead to:
A. more rational thoughts B. an emphasis on observable behavior C. a reaction from the patient to see the therapist as a substitute parent, lover, or another significant other D. changes in the serotonin levels
Which core pathology is related to infancy?
a. Diffidence b. Dissociation c. Withdrawal d. Inertia
When Sir Frederic Bartlett asked people to read unfamiliar stories and then to tell the stories to him later, he found that the details were often eliminated or changed that made the story more sensible to them
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Sarah's mom told her they were going outside in the rain and needed a bumbershoot. Sarah had never heard the word bumbershoot before, but she knew the word umbrella. Sarah tries to figure out what the new word means, and eventually she decides that a bumbershoot must be an umbrella. Sarah must abandon her __________ to reach this conclusion.
A) cardinality principle B) shape bias C) overregularization principle D) mutual exclusivity bias