Jason began the year in Mrs. Peat's classroom with many inappropriate behaviors. Mrs. Peat responded by
giving Jason plenty of attention when he was behaving appropriately and ignoring inappropriate behavior. As a
result, Jason's appropriate behavior increased over time and his inappropriate behavior diminished. Mrs. Peat used
a. Negative reinforcement
b. Classical conditioning
c. Discriminative stimuli
d. Positive reinforcement
d
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c. cultural. d. social. e. emotional.
The cushion fall zone in front and back of a swing should be
a. 10 feet. b. 30 feet. c. 5 feet. d. 20 feet.
An infant sees an object get hidden behind a screen, then a second object be placed behind the screen. If the screen drops and there are three objects, instead of the two the infant saw, he will ______.
a. stare longer, suggesting they at least know 1 + 1 = 2 b. start to cry, as the extra object will frighten them c. not react with any interest, suggesting that they can’t process simple mathematics yet d. look expectantly at the researcher, waiting for them to count the objects out loud
Reliability is a hard skill.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)