According to B. F. Skinner's operant conditioning theory,
A) modeling is the most powerful source of development.
B) the frequency of behavior can be increased by following it with reinforcers.
C) development is a discontinuous process.
D) children actively construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore the world.
B
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but eventually adopted the majority viewpoint). When participants were asked, at the end of the discussion, to "vote one group member out of the group," who was MOST often voted out? a. the "mode" confederate b. the "deviant" confederate c. the "slider" confederate d. both "slider" and "deviant" confederates (equally)
According to the introductory discussion of bilingualism,
a. more than half of the people in the world are at least partially bilingual. b. technically, a multilingual is someone who speaks two different languages that have different historical origins. c. a speaker's first language is the language that she or he currently speaks most fluently. d. the majority of the world's bilinguals learned their second language during high school.
According to Piaget, the formal operational child can think based solely on abstract symbols, requiring no referents in real life
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A _____ increases the probability of the response that it follows
a. stimulus b. motivation c. reinforcer d. latent investment