What are the 2 techniques generally used to promote desirable behaviors?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: positive & negative reinforcement
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Which of the following is true regarding young adulthood??
a. ?It emerges gradually in industrialized countries. b. ?It takes place from age 18 to age 25. c. ?In developing countries, it is typically marked by gaining the right to vote. d. ?It is a phase determined by biology.
Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky believed that cognitive development is strongly influenced by
a. heredity. b. genes and maturation. c. social and cultural factors. d. identity formation.
Although Larry never went out for any sport at his high school, he could be seen in the stands of every game wearing the school's colors and cheering wildly for his team. When they won, he felt exhilarated and would tell people, "We won! I knew we could do it," as if he had played the whole game himself. Larry is exhibiting which defense mechanism?
a. identification b. rationalization c. intellectualization d. sublimation
When psychologists ask research participants to remember combinations of letters (such as TJD), why might they have participants engage in strange tasks such as counting backward by threes?
a. Counting backward prevents rehearsal, so researchers can see how long an unrehearsed memory trace will last. b. Researchers try to make the participants forget. c. Counting backward can facilitate episodic binding. d. Researchers are actually interested in backward-counting ability.