Bill wants to increase the amount of water that he drinks each day, but is having difficulty because he drinks too much pop instead. Bill gets rid of all the pop in his apartment and no longer goes down the pop aisle in the supermarket. Removing the pop and avoiding the pop aisle in the supermarket is an example of ____________ for his competing behavior
a. removing the discriminative stimulus and cues
b. presenting the discriminative stimulus and cues
c. decreasing response effort
d. eliminating establishing operations
a
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When Topaz comments on Azure's "blue eyes," Topaz is describing an example of a(n)
a. karyotype. b. genotype. c. sex-linked trait. d. phenotype.
Research investigating the effectiveness of residential care for children with intellectual disability indicates that ____
a. residential care is not an effective treatment option b. family involvement is crucial to children's adaptation to and benefit from residential care c. contact with family serves to confuse the child and disrupts the child's progress d. residential care is the most effective treatment option
The motor cortex is located within which of the following lobes of the brain?
a. occipital b. temporal c. frontal d. parietal
In autokinetic effect studies, researchers will sometimes replace one group member with a new member after each set of trials until all the members are new to the situation. The researchers do this to demonstrate the
a. importance of informational influence. b. power of normative influence. c. autokinetic effect. d. transgenerational influence of norms.