Describe the three types of childhood temperaments, as described by Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess.
What will be an ideal response?
The easy child: regular sleep and feeding schedules, approaches new situations with enthusiasm and adapts to them easily, and is generally cheerful.
The difficult child: has irregular sleep and feeding schedules, is slow to accept new people and situations, takes a long time to adjust to new routines, and responds to frustrations with tantrums and crying.
The slow to warm up child: Falls in between the easy child and the difficult child.
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Adhd
a. is more common in boys than in girls. b. is a pattern of learned behavior. c. would not exist if teachers were willing to be more flexible. d. is simply a stage that children go through and that they will grow out of.
Regarding televised violence, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. In recent years, the violent crime rate among youth has significantly increased, even as the sale of violent video games has decreased. b. Younger children are more likely to be influenced by televised violence because they do not fully recognize that media characters and stories are fantasies. c. Experiencing media violence does not invariably "cause" any given person to become more aggressive but makes aggression more likely. d. Personality characteristics, family conflict, depression, and negative peer influences are factors that affect the chances that hostile thoughts will be turned into actions.
What did Harlow notice in his monkeys that led him to question psychoanalytic and learning theories?
Some of them showed no love for their mothers. They showed a stronger attachment to their cloth mothers than to their bottles. Some of them refused to eat from a bottle. They seemed to be comforted by their bottles in times of fear.
The neuromodulator most closely associated with the effects of primary and secondary
reinforcers is a. GABA. b. serotonin. c. epinephrine. d. dopamine. e. acetylcholine.