Professor Hargrove is interested in the causes of road rage. As part of his research, he is planning to manipulate the temperature inside a car and then measure whether the drivers get angry. Which step of the scientific method is he demonstrating?
Answer: Operational belief
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Social skills training is designed to increase adaptive behaviors using:
a. modeling and reinforcement b. classical conditioning techniques c. aversion therapy d. systematic desensitization
In the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, where specially trained social workers provided foster parents with counseling and support,
A) the foster-care group moved ahead of never-institutionalized agemates living with Bucharest families. B) the foster-care group exceeded the institutional-care group in intelligence test scores, language skills, and emotional responsiveness. C) earlier foster placement did not improve the scores of the foster-care group on any measure. D) the EEG and ERP assessments of brain activity were substantially the same for the foster-care group and the institutional-care group.
Which of the following provides an illustration of how the use of norms to change behavior can backfire and produce a "boomerang effect"?
a. Jerry finds out that everyone in his building is conserving water by installing a low-flow shower head, so he decides that he doesn't need to worry about conserving, and he begins taking even longer showers than usual. b. Elaine notices that the new, attractive guy at the office brings a reusable cup instead of bottled water, so she goes out of her way to show off her reusable cup whenever he is in the vicinity in order to win his affection. c. Kramer finds out that he is using more electricity than most people in the neighborhood, so he cuts down on his usage by shutting off his computer, lights, and hot tub every time he leaves his apartment. d. George finds out that all of his neighbors are stealing cable television, so he decides that he will get an illegal cable hookup as well.
John Watson, the so-called founder of behaviorism, was an advocate of ________. In this he rejected thinking, memory, perception, and the like, and freed himself, he thought, from the mind?body problem.
a. anti-realism b. mechanism c. anti-mentalism d. mechanistic materialism