Tanya and Bob have found that taking away their teenagers' cell phones or taking away other privileges are effective in reducing any "misbehavior." Tanya and Bob are using
A) positive punishment.
B) negative punishment.
C) negative reinforcement.
D) nonreinforcement.
Answer: B) negative punishment.
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Attending college, joining the military for a short stint, and traveling for an extended time before settling down all
a. postpone adulthood. b. allow one's identity to develop and then become fixed at adulthood. c. lead to lower levels of college attendance. d. require that one's identity crisis be resolved in the teenage years.
Describe the four identity statuses identified by Marcia
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Studies of patients with conduction aphasia have led to which of the following conclusions about the neural control of language?
A. The parietal lobe analyzes the sounds of words. B. Wernicke's aphasia is not a form of receptive aphasia. C. There are different neural paths for sounds and for meanings of words. D. The meanings of words are stored in the right parietal cortex.
Dr. Hauser hypothesized that depression is related to stress, such that people who are more depressed are also more stressed. Which of the following correlations between depression and stress would best support her hypothesis?
a) 0 b) .55 c) .80 d) -.99