An elementary school teacher practically ends classroom discipline problems by giving students "chances" in a lottery to be held at the end of the week for some small toy. The students have chances taken away if they break various rules. The students are participating in an operant conditioning system known as a(n) __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
token economy
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Mandy has applied for a job at a large telecommunications company. As part of the process, she goes to the human resources department and participates in several exercises. In one exercise, she is taken to an office, seated at a desk, and asked to process the in-basket on the desk as if it were her first day on the job. Multiple evaluators rate Mandy's performance on processing the in-basket
work. Next, she does another task and is again rated by many evaluators. Mandy is participating in a(n) a. assessment center. b. structured interview. c. personality test. d. intelligence test.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Without rehearsal, information cannot be stored in short-term memory beyond about 5 seconds 2. We can hold about seven meaningful pieces of information in our short-term memory 3. “Working memory” refers to active maintenance of information in sensory storage 4. The executive functions of working memory occur in the occipital lobe of the brain 5. Long-term memory has no known capacity limits
Thorndike’s ____ stated that reinforcement strengthened behavior, whereas punishment weakened it.
a. original law of exercise b. revised law of exercise c. original law of effect d. revised law of effect
Sigmund Freud suggested that in therapy a person may
transfer important intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from their past onto the therapist, so that their relationship mirrors other relationships in the client's life. Another possibility, however, is that stable personality traits in the client may cause him or her to simply react in similar ways to different people. This is an important reminder of the critical thinking concept of A) ruling out rival hypotheses. B) replicability. C) falsifiability. D) extraordinary claims.