You and your spouse want to make it more likely that your preschool child develops self-control. After reading about self-control in your textbook, you tell your spouse,
a. "Honey, we need to be very strict with Junior."
b. "Pumpkin pie, we need to do what we can to help Junior develop a concrete plan for resisting temptations."
c. "Dear, we need to talk to Junior about temptations and explain to him why they are so attractive."
d. "Babe, we're worrying about this a little early. Children can't develop self-control until they're at least elementary school-age."
b
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a. Shaping b. Stimulus generalization c. Chaining d. Fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement
Stan and Oliver, famous psychologists, are interested in determining how fast people can respond to a signal flashed on a computer screen. At the start of each trial, the computer displays a Get Ready sign, then the screen goes blank. After a short delay, the signal is flashed on the computer screen and the subject presses a key as quickly as possible. In condition one, the duration of the short
delay is always the same length of time. In condition two, the short delay changes randomly from trial to trial. According to research in high-speed decision making, the subjects in condition one are ____ than those in condition two because of ____.? a. ?slower; complexity b. ?slower; stimulus-response compatibility c. ?faster; expectancy d. ?faster; speed-accuracy tradeoff
The left hemisphere processes information
a. simultaneously. b. sequentially. c. holistically. d. through general connections.
Using picture series, Goswami and Brown showed that analogical reasoning based on relational similarity emerges at least by the age of
a. birth. b. one year. c. three years. d. four years.