Estefan has problems with penmanship. His fine motor skills are not well developed and Mrs. Finch believes that he will never perform well enough to gainreinforcement. Mrs. Finch breaks the task of forming letters with long stems into small steps. First, she expects Estefan to make straight stems. She will reinforce his efforts when he makes straight stems on his writing assignment. In this case,
she is using:
a. cueing.
b. the Premack principle.
c. shaping.
d. cueing and prompting.
c
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
After a painful experience at one dentist's office, Teresa's mother takes Teresa to a different dentist, who takes great care to make her visits painless. Teresa is anxious at first, but after a few visits, Teresa gradually becomes less resistant about going to the new dentist. Teresa's change in behavior can probably best be explained in terms of _____. But then Teresa doesn't go to see the
dentist again until three years later. On her first visit to the painless dentist after that time interval, she is anxious once again, even though she had not been anxious in her previous visits. The return of this response after it had previously disappeared is known as _____. a. extinction; spontaneous recovery b. generalization; discriminative learning c. higher-order conditioning; discriminative learning d. generalization; higher-order conditioning
Suicide attempts are highest among Asian American high school males
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Describe your philosophy of teaching language arts. Support your view with details
What will be an ideal response?