_____ refers to the process of a child gaining skill or knowledge through the experience of learning from a peer who has already mastered that particular skill or knowledge.

A. Observational learning
B. Teaching
C. Scaffolding
D. Guidance


C. Scaffolding

Psychology

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To critics of the idea that animals can learn language, a highly trained circus animal that responds to its trainer’s verbal requests would not be convincing primarily because of the critics’ arguments that such behavior ____

a. ?is simply not possible given the animal’s small cortex b. has been shown to be a product of a hoax carried out by fraudulent researchers? c. does not fit our understanding of evolutionary processes? d. merely reflects behavioral conditioning?

Psychology

A gene?environment correlation is evocative when __________

A) parents provide environments influenced by their own heredity B) children extend their experiences beyond the immediate family C) children actively seek environments that fit with their genetic tendencies D) a child’s heredity influences responses that strengthen the child’s original style

Psychology

The substance that accounted for the most admissions in the Treatment Episode Data Set from 2011 was

A. cocaine. B. alcohol. C. heroin. D. methamphetamine.

Psychology

When we refuse to acknowledge or accept anxiety-arousing information, we are using

a) denial. b) repression. c) projection. d) displacement.

Psychology