Collin is a very rambunctious child and is often defiant with his parents. When he acts up, his parents have resorted to bribing him to improve his behavior. This has the effect of rewarding his misbehavior. This pattern is known as
a. classical conditioning.
b. coercion.
c. negative reinforcement.
d. a pressure tactic.
b
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What is the focus of Daniel Levinson's theory of adult development?
A. reaffirming personality change throughout the course of life from birth to death B. preparing for death C. achieving ego integration D. looking at the processes that can lead to personality change as a person grows older
Clark Hull's drive-reduction theory states that:
A) organisms seek to increase stimulation. B) primary drives are triggered in a state of satiety. C) humans learn to engage in behaviors that reduce a state of arousal. D) pain cannot trigger arousal and activate behavior.
Responding is reliably increased by
a. both rewards and operant reinforcers. b. rewards. c. operant reinforcers. d. neither rewards nor operant reinforcers.
Newborns respond with empathy to other babies' cries but not to tapes of their own cries. This implies that neonates
a. cannot yet pass the "rouge test" of mirror recognition. b. enter early into the psychological comparisons phase. c. show early signs of achievement expectancy. d. distinguish themselves from others.