The owner of a chicken ranch ends a pet dog's habit of stealing
and eating eggs by allowing the dog to "find" and eat several eggs laced with Tabasco sauce. The ranch owner's approach is similar to
a. covert sensitization.
b. aversion therapy.
c. operant conditioning.
d. desensitization techniques.
ANSWER: b
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A. doing a cursory job. B. promising too much. C. substituting advocacy for objectivity. D. presenting their information in a confusing manner.
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education reported all of the following EXCEPT:
A) achievement declined in science. B) nearly half of high school seniors could not draw inferences from written material. C) 30% of all 17-year-olds were functionally illiterate. D) achievement declined in English.
A __________ is a large group of older children or adolescents that have similar values and attitudes and are known by a common label
a. crowd c. dominance hierarchy b. clique d. class
According to Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model:
a. Children cannot control the external system factors that influence their development. b. Transactional relationships among factors in different systems can help to explain both normal and abnormal development. c. Factors that influence children on a daily basis (e.g., in the family) have the greatest influence on development. d. Social and cultural factors have less impact on child development than biological factors. e. Demographic factors such as gender and age have little bearing on child development.