The incremental view of ability is like
a. quitting a job before it's begun.
b. swapping an item for something else at the flea market.
c. inflating a balloon to expand its size.
d. hearing a train whistle get quieter while the train recedes into the distance.
C
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Baby Eliza has more control over her trunk than over her arms and legs. This exemplifies the __________ pattern of development.
A. proximodistal B. cephalocaudal C. canalization D. catch-up growth
Which of the following p values is statistically significant?
A. .04 B. .07 C. .1 D. .23
Gabe is trying to get his dog, Trixie, to "sit up." He starts rewarding her first when she lies down. Then he rewards her when she is sitting on her backside. And finally he rewards her only when she sits up with her paws off the ground. Gabe has trained Trixie to "sit up" by using ____.?
a. ?shaping b. ?secondary reinforcement c. ?backward conditioning d. ?stimulus discrimination
Arkes and Freedman's "baseball game" experiment asked participants to indicate whether the following sentence was present in a passage they had previously read about events in a game: "The batter was safe at first." Their findings showed inaccurate memories involved
a. omissions of information that was presented. b. participants who did not understand baseball and assumed more information was presented than actually was. c. creations from inferences based on baseball knowledge. d. confusions about presented information when it was ambiguous.