To train a young child to eat with a spoon, you should reinforce small steps until she gets it right. This is an example of
a. variable reinforcement. c. partial reinforcement.
b. negative reinforcement. d. shaping.
D
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a. Daphne: "When your mind wanders, your visual acuity actually improves." b. Dan: "When your mind wanders, you no longer can match an object's shape with its color." c. Evan: "Mind wandering occurs when your attention shifts from distributed attention to focused attention." d. Karolina: "Mind wandering occurs when your thoughts shift from the outside world to your inner thoughts."
A researcher who wants to study how state welfare programs influence parenting behaviors would be primarily studying a. microsystems
b. exosystems. c. mesosystems. d. operant conditioning.
Which one of the following would be best for conveying the shape of the frequency distribution of 250 test scores?
a. histogram b. rank-order distribution c. cumulative frequency distribution d. ungrouped frequency distribution
While being held by her grandmother, newborn baby Juliette starts to turn toward her grandmother's body and open her mouth. She is demonstrating the ______________ reflex
a. Babinski b. Babkin c. Moro d. rooting