To increase the chance that a general attitude like "Helping others is a good thing" will predict a specific behavior like someone's willingness to give blood, you should ____
a. measure their cognitive coping skills first
b. measure the general attitude and link it to the specific behavior
c. ask the person to think about giving blood as a helpful act when you make the request for a blood donation
d. reduce the accessibility of the attitude
C
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Social skills training is designed to increase adaptive behaviors using:
a. modeling and reinforcement b. classical conditioning techniques c. aversion therapy d. systematic desensitization
Babies who __________ are less prone to distress
A) focus intently on unpleasant events B) engage in self-soothing C) cannot crawl or walk D) depend on caregiver-soothing
Baby Lakota is shown a ball that is then hidden under a cover. What must Lakota do to retrieve the ball?
A) Lakota will need to recall the location of the ball. B) Lakota must coordinate "pushing aside" and "grasping" schemes to retrieve the ball. C) Lakota will not be able to retrieve the ball until she is in Substage 6 of the sensorimotor period. D) Lakota will have trouble retrieving the ball until she no longer makes the A-not-B error.