Children with ASD may engage in self-stimulatory behavior because ____
a. they crave stimulation, and self-stimulation serves to excite their nervous systems
b. they are ready to play
c. they are hungry
d. they need to hurt themselves to focus
a
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People are more critical of new evidence that is:
A) consistent with common sense. B) consistent with their attitudes or beliefs. C) inconsistent with their attitudes or beliefs. D) presented using emotionally charged language.
Suppose you collect data about child abuse and find that mothers who have their first child before age 18 are more likely to be abusive than mothers who are older
However, you also note that young mothers are also more likely to be poor and have less access to prenatal care. Therefore, you cannot draw conclusions about maternal age and child abuse. The reason you cannot draw this conclusion is because your study involved: a. a sequential-cohort design b. a nonrandom sample c. a nonrepresentative sample d. confounding
In a training procedure, a ring-tailed lemur (a social animal) is given a reinforcer if it chooses the higher ranking item in a pair. If A>B and B>C and C>D, then how would the lemur respond if asked to choose between A and D?
A) ?It would choose A. B) ?It would choose D. C) ?It would not be able to choose between A and D. D) ?It would show symptoms of experimental neurosis.
A theory is a precise prediction about behavior that is examined in an experiment.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)