Seligman labels the tendency to develop specific phobias as
a. evolutional. c. preparedness.
b. predispositional. d. learned helplessness.
C
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Children whose parents address their escalating oppositional behaviors with increasingly punitive responses are more likely over time to engage in problem behaviors in school and other settings. This is one of the tenets of which model?
a. coercion b. developmental cascade c. interactive d. negative reinforcement
In research using questionnaires:
a. the interviewer must ask leading questions b. maintaining the participants' attention is never a problem c. the answers are never open-ended d. the results will be meaningless unless the sample of respondents is representative of the population of interest e. both b and c
Civilizations and states arose because:
a. people became tired of walking and hunting. b. the weather was too cold to live outside. c. safety of it's citizens was a primary concern. d. as agriculture became more efficient, people were freed up to work on other activities.
Sydney, when faced with a problem, starts with a hypothesis, deduces testable inferences, and isolates and combines variables to see which inferences are confirmed. Sydney is in Piaget's __________ stage of development
A) sensorimotor B) preoperational C) concrete operational D) formal operational