Eight-month-old Landon loves to hear himself talk. He babbles "ma ma ma ma" over and over. Soon he found that whenever he made the sounds "ma ma ma," his mother would come and give him lots of positive attention. Landon soon began to associate the sounds "ma ma ma" with his mother and would say the sounds whenever he wanted her. This illustrates
a. operation conditioning.
b. classical conditioning.
c. operant conditioning.
d. reflex conditioning.
c
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a. provide evidence that the linguistic relativity hypothesis is incorrect. b. support social communication theory. c. support the linguistic relativity hypothesis. d. provide evidence that social communication theory is incorrect.
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a. demonstrate the importance of top-down processing. b. emphasize the importance of bottom-up processing. c. illustrate categorical perception. d. provide support for the recognition-by-components approach to perception.
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a. upper b. middle c. lower d. There is no difference in rates of obesity based on social class.