Your 18-month-old son has been sleeping through the night for the past two months. You and your significant other were very happy with this new development and were looking forward to many more months of it
But he has started waking up at night again and has been pretty fussy during the day. What is the likely reason that he is waking up now?
a. He has been drinking too much before bedtime.
b. His molars are coming in and he is teething.
c. He has been eating too much.
d. He is going through a growth spurt.
B. There is a resurgence of teething that begins between 13 and 19 months of age. The molars are erupting and the teething pain is waking him up.
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A) spontaneous recovery B) extinction C) acquisition D) continuous reinforcement E) Select
A person is diagnosed as having a learning disorder when they demonstrate a large discrepancy between their achievement and measured IQ, due to such factors as low motivation or physical problems such as visual deficits
a. true b. false
Psychologists suggest that individuals who continue to deliberately self-injure, despite the pain, likely do so because
A. they often have psychological disorders that prevent them from feeling any pain. B. they have damaged pain receptors and no longer feel pain in response to injury. C. the subsequent feelings of relief and calmness are reinforcing. D. the subsequent feelings of relief and calmness are punishing.
Discrimination refers to
A. the consideration of individuals for their personal qualities and not their membership in a group. B. a negative (or positive) evaluation of a particular group and its members. C. a set of generalized beliefs and expectations about a particular group and its members. D. behavior directed toward individuals on the basis of their membership in a particular group.