First Snow (see Personal Insights 19.1) is a book for children in which a young girl
a. has her beliefs confirmed that life and death are but two parts of the same thing
b. is frightened when a snowflake lands on her finger
c. misses an opportunity to experience snow for the first time
d. is told by her parents what it means to say that her grandmother is dying
e. makes her first snowball
A
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a. avoidance learning. b. escape learning. c. positive reinforcement. d. classical conditioning.
Imagine that you could use a time machine to travel back to the thirteenth century. You see groups of people in a village jumping, dancing, and having convulsions in the town square. All over Europe, you find similar groups of raving people. You would have witnessed the ____
a. phenomenon called trephining b. mass madness called St. Vitus's Dance c. phenomenon called lycanthropy d. mass madness called mesmerism
Several of your classmates are volunteering at a nursing home for extra credit, and they tell you how much fun they are having helping with the "parties" and the weekly activities for the residents. Although you had planned to do the article assignment for extra credit, you change your mind and decide to volunteer at the nursing home. Your new attitude was formed because of
a. direct contact. b. an interaction with others. c. chance conditioning. d. group membership.
The dominant perspective in the nature-nurture debate today is called ____
a. genetics b. ?interactionism c. ?environmentalism d. ?complementary functionalism?