Operant conditioning has been demonstrated in children as young as
a. premature neonates.
b. full-term neonates.
c. six months old.
d. 12 months old.
A
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The tendency toward making internal attributions, and ignoring external situational factors, when explaining people's behavior is called the __________.
A. fundamental attribution error B. self-serving bias C. cognitive dissonance D. situation ignorance
Intellectually __________ children have an IQ of 130 or higher or are highly creative and talented in specific domains.
A. disabled B. challenged C. gifted D. average
The S-R, S-S and the S-R, S-R models in Exercise 15 predict that, following first-order excitatory conditioning of the CS (pairing it with the US) in Stage 1, habituation of the UR in Stage 2 produces what effect when the CS is subsequently presented by itself in Stage 3?
a. The UR will quickly reappear. b. The CR will be essentially unchanged. c. The CR will no longer resemble the UR. d. The now-habituated UR will interfere with the CR.
Mollie loved to eat her grandmother's pecan pie. However, as her grandmother got older, she had difficulty picking out all the pecan shells, so some of the pieces got cooked into the pie. When Mollie would bite into a piece of pecan shell in the pie, she would grab her jaw in pain. After several visits eating "pecan-shell" pie, Mollie would grab her jaw before she even put a bite of pie in her
mouth. The pain (of biting a pecan shell) is the a. conditioned response (CR). b. conditioned stimulus (CS). c. unconditioned response (UR). d. unconditioned stimulus (US).