Paul shares his toys with other children and covertly tells himself, "Good job! You're a good person.". These statements make it more likely that he will share his toys. In this example, Paul's cognitive behavior is functioning as a (n):
a. discriminative stimulus
b. conditioned stimulus
c. reinforcing consequence
d. unconditioned response
c
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Eleven-month-old Ashley plays without a fuss when her mother leaves and on her return ignores her. Ashley is demonstrating which type of attachment style?
A) avoidant B) ambivalent C) disorganized D) secure
A child is bitten by a dog while delivering a newspaper to a house. The next day when he sees the house he feels anxious, even though the dog is nowhere in sight. The CS in this case is the
a. barking dog. b. pain the child feels when bitten by the dog. c. pain the child feels when remembering being bitten by the dog. d. sight of the house.
Taylor & Richards (1991) investigated the hypothesis that nonverbal subscales of IQ tests should be less culturally-biased than verbal subtests and found
A) African American children scored higher on the verbal than the nonverbal subscales of the WISC-R. B) African American children scored lower than white children on the verbal subscale of the WISC-R. C) no differences between African American and white children on the verbal subscale of the WISC-R. D) African American children scored higher than white children on the nonverbal subscale of the WISC-R.
A person who is constantly suspicious of a partner even though the partner is totally faithful is experiencing what kind of jealousy?
A) Normal B) Obsessional C) Control D) Excessive