After Davio brings home a report card with all As, his parents (who want to make sure this behavior continues in the future) give him a new car (something that he really wanted). It appears that Davio's parents are attempting to use _____ to keep his grades up.
A. positive reinforcement
B. negative reinforcement
C. positive punishment
D. negative punishment
Answer: A
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a. making inferences about the child's behavior b. observing the child in real-life settings c. assessing personality d. having the child write a story
The animals learning to press a bar in a Skinner box showed NO signs of learning if the food reward followed a bar press by more than __________seconds
a. 10 b. 30 c. 70 d. 100
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A. levels-of-processing B. information-processing C. parallel distributed processing D. transfer-appropriate processing
Kwame is a normally developing 4-year-old. He remembers playing with a toy fire engine at his cousin's house the previous day
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