Paul's parents frequently give him money whenever he asks. When his parents offer to pay him to help out in the family business Paul is not interested, stating that he does not need the money. In order to make it more reinforcing to receive money for working, Paul's parents stop giving him money whenever he asks. Which antecedent control strategy are Paul's parents using?
a. creating an establishing operation
b. presenting the discriminative stimulus
c. decreasing response effort
d. removing the discriminative stimulus
a
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a. negative consequences for lying are not essential to dissonance. b. negative consequences for lying are essential to dissonance. c. attribution of arousal is essential to dissonance. d. attribution of arousal is not essential to dissonance.
What is the name of the organ through which nutrients pass from the mother to the embryo?
a. Placenta b. Neural tube c. Amniotic sac d. Fallopian tube
Isolation aphasia is a language disturbance that involves the inability to
a. repeat words that are heard or to understand their meaning. b. produce speech and comprehend the meaning of spoken words, without affecting the ability to read and write. c. speak. d. comprehend speech or to produce meaningful speech, without affecting the ability to learn new sequences of words. e. understand the meaning of any new sequences of words.
Most cases of school phobia appear around age
A) 5 to 7. B) 8 to 10. C) 11 to 13. D) 14 to 16.