Many skills, such as playing a musical instrument, cake decorating, or learning to bat a baseball, are learned by what Albert Bandura called
a. instrumental conditioning.
b. respondent conditioning.
c. observational learning.
d. discovery learning.
ANSWER: c
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a. clues of possible psychopathology? b. ?objective expressions c. ?a spiritual encounter d. ?a peak experience e. ?None of the choices are correct.
Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory differs from Skinnerian learning theory in that Bandura's theory allows for
a. the child's passive role in learning. b. the annulment of unobservable mental and cognitive constructs. c. the embracing of mental and motivational constructs. d. a strict adherence to the principles of operant conditioning.
A puff of air to the eye of a rabbit is the _______ in the classical conditioning of the nictitating membrane.
A. unconditioned stimulus B. conditioned stimulus C. unconditioned response D. conditioned response
Richard Rahe revised his earlier version of the Stress Scale for Selected Life Events, noting that life today is _____ stressful than it was in earlier decades and noting that the stress associated with certain life events today is _______
It was in earlier decades. a. less; the same as b. less; somewhat different from c. more; somewhat different from d. more; the same as