Thor would like to get his son to read more without compromising the child's intrinsic motivation to read. Which strategy could best achieve this?
a. Give the child a strict deadline by which time he must have read a set number of books.
b. Set up a competition with other kids in the neighborhood to see who can read the most books.
c. Create a schedule of how many hours the child should be
reading each day and then closely supervise him tomake sure he sticks to the schedule.
d. Give the child a new book for every book that he reads and make it clear that he is doing a good job ofreading the books.
d
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b. Health insurance will not pay for untested treatments. c. Therapists can use empirically supported treatments with less education and training. d. Empirically supported treatments can be applied without asking for informed consent.
The concept of instinct has been redefined with the idea of:
A. fixed action patterns B. homeostatic mechanisms C. extrinsic motives D. intrinsic motives
If stretched out flat, the human cerebral cortex would cover an area of about ________. In addition, the average 20 year old has about ________ miles of white matter in his or her brain
a. ?5 square yards; 20,000 b. ?2.5 square feet; 100,000 c. ?1.0 square feet; 7,500 d. ?7.5 square yards; 250,000
For long distances, an English speaker might say, "Chicago is north of here," but for short distances, the same speaker might say, "My brother is sitting to my right.". Thus, English speakers use which type of directional references for long and short distances?
a. absolute for long distances and relative for short distances. b. relative for long distances and absolute for short distances. c. conjunctive for long distances and disjunctive for short distances. d. disjunctive for long distances and conjunctive for short distances.