When asked to explain how they arrived at an incorrect answer to a mathematical problem, children who demonstrate gesture-speech mismatches:
What will be an ideal response?
tend to have heightened readiness to learn from instruction
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Which of the following is NOT a variety of long-term memory?
a. episodic memory b. semantic memory c. procedural memory d. working memory
Of the four types of conditioning discussed in your textbook, which did Ivan Pavlov find to be the least effective at helping dogs make an association between a bell and food?
a. Simultaneous conditioning b. Delayed conditioning c. Trace conditioning d. Backward conditioning
To effectively change a behavior, behavior therapists suggest that a person should start by
A. punishing every undesired occurrence of the behavior. B. rewarding every occurrence of an alternative, desired behavior. C. switching the behavior from a variable to a fixed schedule of reinforcement. D. gaining a better understanding of the behavior and when it occurs.
Researchers Baron and Straus (1984) found a positive correlation between the number of sexually explicit magazines sold in different states and the number of reported rapes in each of those states
They refrained from concluding that exposure to pornography caused men to rape because of the potential influence of a third variable. Which of the following might constitute that third variable? a. sales of explicit magazines in those states b. number of reported rapes in those states c. exposure to pornography in those states d. a hypermasculine culture in those states