When six-month old Joey cries, his mother, Martha, can tell what he needs even before she goes to him. Martha's skill is an example of ______
a. generalization
b. discrimination
c. semantic generalization
d. errorless discrimination training
B
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Suppose that Joseph Brown is a U.S. diplomat who works in Country X, and he is trying to assess whether Country X poses a threat to the United States
The diplomat gathers evidence that Country X poses a threat, but he does not try to gather evidence that Country X does not pose a threat. This error is called a. the failure to transfer knowledge to a new task. b. the belief-bias effect. c. the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic. d. the confirmation bias.
What does modeling rely on to help clients therapeutically?
a. insight c. fear b. conditioning d. observational learning
What is cross-validation?
a. A repeat of the validation study sometimes using another sample of test takers. b. A validation study whose participants represent all minority groups c. Carrying out the validation in locations throughout a state or country d. An alternative form of validation that can be accomplished using a statistical formula
We can use the standard normal curve as our model for
a. perfectly normal distributions only. b. perfectly normal distributions only, when transformed to z-scores. c. any approximately normal distribution, when transformed to z-scores. d. any approximately normal distribution, when transformed to percentiles.