If you wanted your best friend to spend less time talking about her boyfriend, you might leave every time she started talking about him, saying that you just remembered that you had to be somewhere. In the framework of operant conditioning, your frowning would be:
a. positive reinforcement
b. positive punishment
c. negative reinforcement
d. negative punishment
D
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Since deinstitutionalization began, huge numbers of former mental patients have been discharged from psychiatric facilities. It appears that many of them ____
a. need treatment but are able to work b. have found ways to become employed and to overcome their mental illnesses c. are now in high-quality nursing homes and group residences d. are severely disabled and are homeless
Measuring the amount of time a person requires to complete different cognitive tasks is the goal of mental ________.
A. topography B. chronometry C. imagery D. scanning
In experiments that tested how best to help children confront peers who made sexist remarks, which of the following approaches was most successful?
A) teaching children appropriate retorts to sexist remarks and then having them actively practice with peers B) modeling gender-equitable interactions for the children C) reading stories of examples of appropriate responses to sexist remarks, followed by a discussion of the behaviors and responses D) instructing children how to use polite requests and persuasion
Substance P is related to the sense of balance
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.