During the Olympics or World Cup soccer matches, people often blindly compare their country and culture favorably against others. What phenomenon does this behavior illustrate?
a) conformity
b) ethnocentrism
c) discrimination
d) cultural blindness
B
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Operant responses are typically established through a gradual process in which closer and closer approximations of the desired response are reinforced. This process is called
a. modeling. b. shaping. c. discrimination. d. learning.
Shyla is a socially withdrawn 4-year-old girl. Given what you know about the studies done on social deprivation with rhesus monkeys, what might help Shyla overcome being withdrawn?
a. Socially advanced elders b. Younger playmates c. Female playmates only d. Intense psychodynamic therapy
Explain the elimination-by-aspects strategy for making decisions.
What will be an ideal response?
The preoperational principle called centration means that the child
a. receives help from parents on difficult tasks. b. attends to each object's single most salient feature. c. seeks perceptual balance on objects' spatial layouts. d. looks directly at objects, so that images are centered.