Skinner was content to manipulate environmental events (such as reinforcement contingencies) and note the effects of these manipulations on behavior. What is this called?
a. Functional behaviorism
b. Radical behaviorism
c. Descriptive behaviorism
d. Logical behaviorism
c. Descriptive behaviorism
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Which of the following was characteristic of the interviews Alfred Kinsey conducted between 1938 and 1956 about sexual behavior?
a. They focused on subjective distress. b. They focused on experiences that resulted in orgasm. c. They were structured to make psychiatric diagnosis possible. d. They classified perversions as sadism, masochism, and fetishism.
Slapping the ASD child, or applying a mild electric shock, is used by
a. applied behavior analysis. b. all behavioral therapies. c. psychologists in states where it has not been outlawed. d. no form of therapy; psychologists would not find it ethically justifiable.
As your authors note, processing speed improve significantly between childhood and adolescence. Which of the following physical factors helps explain some of this change?
a. An increase in myelination during adolescence allows nerve impulses to travel more rapidly, and this allows for faster and more efficient processing of information. b. The growth of the amygdalae and hippocampi are both maximized in early adolescence, which enhances the speed of data processing. c. Hemispheric specialization, which refers to the combined manner in which both halves of the brain simultaneously deal with information, does not begin until puberty. d. A thickening of the corpus callosum occurs during puberty, and this allows for neural impulses to be sent simultaneously to all four lobes of the cerebrum. This, in turn, drastically enhances processing speed.
Which of the following demonstrated in his studies of imitation that children may learn new aggressive actions by watching violent or aggressive behavior, or they may learn that violence is "okay"?
a. Elliot Aronson b. Albert Bandura c. David Buss d. Stanley Schachter