How do behaviorism and ethology differ in their approaches to explaining child development?
What will be an ideal response?
Behaviorism suggests that children are like clay, ready to be molded. It is primarily parents, through patterns of reinforcement and punishment, who are thought to provide this molding. Theorists operating from this biological perspective look at maturation (the predetermined and orderly unfolding of abilities) and ethology examines instinctive or inborn behavior patterns. Behaviorism assumes that the individual will start with few abilities, except for basic learning patterns, based on classical and operant conditioning, responding to the environment while the ethological theorists assume that the individual brings a host of skills to bear from genetic inheritance.
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A. 1; 99 B. 5; 95 C. 12; 88 D. 25; 75
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a. Surprisingly, people's feelings of satisfaction in a love relationship are not related to the friendship they feel for their partner. b. Men emphasize friendship more than women do in a love relationship. c. Women emphasize friendship more than men do in a love relationship. d. Both men and women emphasize friendship in a love relationship, and no gender differences have been reported in this area.
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a. Reduced height b. Central nervous system disorders c. Blindness d. Malformations of the joints
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a. an agonist for acetylcholine b. an antagonist to dopamine c. an antagonist to acetylcholine d. an agonist for endorphins