Natasha is a 6-year-old girl who is afraid of dogs. However, when she notices her neighbors playing with their dogs, she wants to play with them too. She pets the dogs and soon plays with them. In the given scenario, Natasha exhibits
A. operant conditioning.
B. latent learning.
C. classical conditioning.
D. observational learning.
Answer: D
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a. Children would live longer but less healthy lives than their parents b. Children would live shorter but healthier lives than their parents c. Children would lead less healthy and shorter lives than their parents d. Children would live longer than their parents, but would have less healthy children of their own when theybecome adults
Many fine motor skills are difficult for young children because ______.
A. preschoolers are not motivated to try these skills independently B. they involve both hands and both sides of the brain C. preschoolers' brains are strongly lateralized D. parents often fail to provide opportunities to practice these skills
Some evidence for universal grammar comes from research demonstrating that children invent real languages when exposed to the not-quite-real languages that adults around them speak, called
a. creoles. c. inversions. b. pidgins. d. motherese.
The transformation of sensory stimuli into neural signals in any of the sensory systems is called ________
a. sensation b. interpolation c. perception d. transduction