A 2-year-old boy picks up a doll, and his father pays no attention. But when the boy picks up a toy hammer, the father talks to him and laughs. In social learning theory, this would be an example of
a. imitation
b. Oedipus complex
c. reinforcement
d. identification
c
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b. In some patients with schizophrenia, there is an excess amount of "gray matter" in the cerebral cortex. c. The majority of patients with schizophrenia have enlarged ventricles in their brains. d. Many patients with schizophrenia have increased activity in the frontal lobes of the brain.
H.E. Pennypacker recently picked up a copy of “Recruiting for Dummies.” He thumbs through the chapter on attracting job candidates and discovers that all of the following are common methods for attracting job candidates except ____.?
a. ?actively recruiting workers with good reputations from rival companies b. ?newspaper advertisements c. ?posting jobs on recruitment websites d. ?interviewing graduating seniors on college campuses
Amy desperately wants to have a child, but as she nears her 35th birthday, she still has not met a man she loves and wishes to marry. She decides to go to a sperm bank and select a genetic father with whom to conceive children. Amy is using which strategy to create her family?
a. Donor insemination b. Blended family c. Adoption d. PVF
In a token economy, tokens:
a. replace all reinforcers b. can be exchanged for other reinforcers at a later time c. can be used only with humans d. have been shown to be ineffective in producing desirable results