Gustavo believes that motor skills represent solutions to an infant's goals. According to him, when a baby is offered a new toy, the baby attempts to grab the toy while also balancing itself. He believes that this active improvisation and adaptation to achieve one's goal demonstrates that nature, nurture, the infant, and the environment are all working together. Gustavo is a proponent of which theory?
What will be an ideal response?
Dynamic systems theory
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a. pennies b. snacks c. toys d. all of these
The process of learning to think by having social experiences and by exploration is called guided participation
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The anticipated pleasure associated with an action is its _____________, whereas the actual pleasure experienced is its_____________
A) anhedonia; hedonic value B) hedonic value; anhedonia C) anhedonia; positive incentive value D) hedonic value; positive incentive value E) positive incentive value; hedonic value
The Milgram obedience experiments had ethical problems because
a. Milgram failed to debrief his participants. b. the project was not conducted by scientifically qualified personnel. c. the participants were under extreme emotional distress. d. the participants did not know they were in a study.