Jerry is a professional football player who injured his knee while running during a game. Jerry has had surgery and his knee is fully healed, but he is afraid to put pressure on it because he doesn't want to re-injure it. The trainer implements a plan in which he first differentially reinforces standing, then walking, then jogging, and finally running at full speed. This is an example of using
shaping to:
a. reinstate a previous behavior
b. change a dimension of an existing behavior
c. generate a novel behavior
d. increase an existing behavior
a
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Three-fourths of high school seniors have jobs during the school year
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The fact that a specific aspect of intelligence can be modified at any time during the life span exemplifies the concept of a. interindividual variability. b. plasticity
c. multidimensionality. d. primary mental abilities.
Blood flow to active regions of the brain is controlled by:
a. the myelin sheath b. the reflex arc c. glial cells d. interneurons
After collecting all the research on gender differences in aggressive behavior, Estephan finds that 125 of them showed that males are more aggressive, 25 showed that females are more aggressive, and 50 showed no gender differences in aggression
Based on these findings, he concludes that males are more aggressive than females. To reach his conclusions, he used what is called ________. a. the box score method b. the hunt-and-pick method c. the relevance technique d. a meta-analysis