When Keller and Marian Breland, two psychologists who became animal trainers, decided that it would be cute to have a pig drop a big wooden coin into a box, they found that:
a. food was not an effective reinforcer for the pig and so learning didn't occur.
b. when given edible roots as reinforcers, the pig learned the task in fewer than 10 trials.
c. the pig was difficult to train because it kept dropping the coin, rooting, and throwing the coin in the air.
d. the pig showed intrinsic interest in the task and so reinforcement was unnecessary.
C
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a. Popularity and nonsocial activity b. Cross-pressure and parallel play c. Peer acceptance and popularity d. Coaching and peer-only model
Reanalysis of findings linking television watching with potential for developing attentional problems reveal that
a. these findings do suggest a strong correlation. b. the correlation may be linked to other contexts. c. the earlier findings falsified a correlation. d. there is no correlation.
Your teenage son describes a new male classmate as "pretty weird." He tells you that this classmate "looks more like a girl than a boy" because he's not growing facial hair like other boys
He also says that the classmate seems to have difficulties reading and that a lot of kids don't like him. Of the following, which is most likely to be true? A) Your son's new classmate is an XX male. B) Your son's new classmate is an XY female. C) Your son's new classmate is an XXY male. D) Your son's new classmate has Klinefelter syndrome.
____________ intelligence has been suggested by Goleman to be a more powerful influence on life than more traditional views
a) Analytical intelligence b) Creative intelligence c) Emotional intelligence d) none of these