Ivan, a teacher, spends most of his time working with male students because he believes that they have the best chance of being admitted into the advanced program. As a result, the male students do perform better and are admitted more often than females. This example illustrates ____
a. ?a self-fulfilling prophecy
b. ?a self-serving bias hypothesis
c. ?prejudice without discrimination
d. ?the contact hypothesis
ANSWER:
a
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a. the cat's perverse pleasure in prolonging the mouse's pain b. an instinctive need for additional pursuit behaviors prior to eating c. a conflict between attack and escape behaviors d. regression to infantile patterns of activity in the hippocampus
The little child who gets a hard spanking for running out into the street is experiencing an operant conditioning procedure called:
a. positive reinforcement c. positive punishment b. negative reinforcement d. negative punishment
To change a client's nail biting behavior, the client is instructed to paint his nails with a coating that tastes terrible. This is a(n) __________ method
a. aversive conditioning c. counter conditioning b. extinction d. flooding