What was Albert Bandura's Bobo doll study, and what was the primary finding?
What will be an ideal response?
Bandura was a learning theorist who studied the impact of observational learning. His Bobo doll research of the 1960s centered on how children learned various novel, aggressive responses towards a large Bobo doll after observing models being reinforced for novel, aggressive responses. The resulting outcome was that although the children were not directly reinforced to behave in any particular manner, when left alone with the Bobo doll, they displayed the novel, aggressive responses toward it.
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Under which circumstance can a therapist divulge information about a client to a third party?
a. when the third party is a qualified psychiatrist or psychologist b. when the therapist thinks such consultation is in the best interest of the client c. when the therapist has reason to believe that the client presents a danger to himself or herself or may potentially harm someone else d. when the therapist is a professor and will use the information to teach
If you tend to persist in using the same problem-solving strategy time after time, you are showing evidence of:
a. a confirmation bias b. anchoring and adjustment c. mental set d. the availability heuristic
If you are eating an apple and bite a large green worm in half, you may not be able to look at an apple for several months without feeling ill because you have developed a(n)
a. systematic desensitization. b. spontaneous recovery. c. conditioned aversion. d. extinction.
Amy is trying to remember her social security number, while registering for school. What technique would help Amy in this process?
a. Stare at the numbers on her social security card to create an icon in her short-term memory. b. Repeat the list of numbers to herself one at a time. c. Rehearse the set of numbers keeping them in the 3 chunks format. d. This is not possible because a social security number is made up of 9 numbers, which is larger than short-term memory capacity.