A child learns to be afraid of spiders by observing his parents' highly emotional and negative response to them. This demonstrates
a. spontaneous recovery.
b. higher order conditioning.
c. vicarious classical conditioning.
d. stimulus generalization.
C
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a. spend one intense study session early in the week, and then relax b. space her study sessions out over the full week c. spend one intense study session the night before the tryouts d. only read the play through once before the tryouts, to reduce interference
A _______________ is an experiment in which neither the participants nor the individuals running the experiment know if a given participant is in the experimental or the control group until after the results are tallied
a. double-blind study b. single-blind study c. meta-analysis d. correlational study
Overwhelming critical remarks are called
a. verbal abuse. b. communication negativity. c. flooding. d. bulldozing.
Six month old Will is babbling in his high chair. Whenever he babbles the sound "da-da," his
mother claps her hands and responds, "Will, you said Daddy!" Will's mother is reinforcing him to repeat the same utterance over and over. Which type of language theorist would say that language is shaped through such reinforcement? a. Nativist b. Interactionist c. Behaviorist d. Linguist