Caleb continually blurts out the answers to Mr. Karowski's questions—so much so that other students rarely have a chance to respond. Mr. Karowski decides to ignore Caleb's behavior, hoping that it will decrease if he doesn't pay attention to it. Mr. Karowski is applying the concept of _________ in his treatment of Caleb
A) intermittent reinforcement
B) incompatible behavior
C) punishment
D) extinction
D
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To encourage his students to thoroughly learn the material and be critical thinkers, Mr. Montoni writes most of his test questions to be more difficult than the ones he assigns for homework and that they discuss in class. This is an
a. acceptable testing practice because those who take the time to fully learn the material will be able to correctly answer most of the questions. b. acceptable testing practice because it will motivate students to study more than they otherwise would. c. unacceptable testing practice because teachers who want students to be able to answer more difficult questions need to teach them how to answer those types of questions. d. unacceptable testing practice because it inflates test scores.
If high scores of one variable are associated with high scores of another variable (and low with low), the correlation is said to be:
A) positive B) negative C) spurious D) neutral
Regarding praise, research suggests that in practice teachers:
a. praise too often. b. praise student behavior, not their work. c. praise low achievers too much. d. praise too generally.
The term "cult of domesticity" refers to
A. the use of accepted beliefs about women's role in the home as an argument for increased formal schooling of girls. B. fundamentalist Christian groups that required women to work only at home. C. groups of women that were tried as witches for occult practices in their homes. D. All these answers are correct.