Sometimes when her little boy has a temper tantrum Mrs. Brown ignores him, but sometimes she picks him up and tries to calm him. According to the text, this will probably:
a. reassure the child and lead to the development of self- regulation.
b. negatively reinforce the boy's behavior.
c. confuse the boy.
d. make the boy's behavior harder to extinguish.
D.
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a) paralinguistic cues b) proxemics c) emblems d) morphemes
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a. the individual differences perspective b. clinical psychology c. developmental psychology d. evolutionary psychology
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A. industry vs. inferiority B. concrete operational C. latency D. conventional