Mei Lin learned at a young age that developing good study habits, such as doing her homework, brought about good grades and made her want to work harder in school. This kind of encouraging outcome of an action is called __________.
A. development
B. classical conditioning
C. reinforcement
D. social-cognition
Answer: C
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a. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act b. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act c. The Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures d. The Fairness in Employment Testing Act
So-called mad cow disease is a type of
A. TSE. B. encephalitis. C. meningitis. D. kuru.
Sanitizing language, such as "wasting" or "ending" instead of "killing" is an example of:
A. behavioral classification. B. metaphorical cataloging. C. cognitive adage. D. euphemistic labeling.
When Alicia is first learning how to read, she keeps the individual letters D-O-G active in her working memory. As her reading skills improve, she will eventually be able to think of these three letters as the word "dog."
This ability to take smaller bits of information and create larger bits is known as A) summarizing. B) storing. C) paraphrasing D) chunking.