Socioeconomic status has a huge effect on quality of life. Describe the ways in which SES influences access we have to resources
What will be an ideal response?
SES will influence where we go to school, the quality of schools available to us, if we will live past childhood, type of work you do, duration of education.
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Training a response by reinforcing successive approximations to it is known as what?
a. Classical conditioning b. Shaping c. Disequilibrium d. The law of effect
A consequence of Darwin's work for psychology was ____
a. the legitimization of analog introspection in the study of animals b. the legitimization of nonexperimental descriptive methods c. the theory of eugenics d. the use of the tenets of selective breeding for determining U.S. immigration quotas e. acknowledgment of the necessity of statistical analysis in psychological research
Dr. Dawson's research program is concerned with how a person's experience changes as the intensity of a sound is increased. Dawson is studying
a. psychophysics. b. subliminal perception. c. perceptual constancy. d. extrasensory perception. e. parapsychology.
A kindergarten teacher wants to reduce the amount of aggressiveness children display in her class and on the playground. Using operant conditioning principles, the teacher should ____
a. use negative reinforcers to decrease the behavior b. pair aggressiveness with some pleasant stimulus c. eliminate the reinforcement associated with aggressiveness d. encourage the children to get the aggressiveness out of their systems