A teacher used prompting in order to get a student to pronounce written words correctly. When the student begins pronouncing the words correctly just by seeing them, the teacher begins to remove the prompts. The gradual removal of prompts while the behavior is occurring in the presence of the discriminative stimulus is called:
a. prompt withdrawal
b. shaping
c. fading
d. reduction
c
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a. cognitive b. physical c. behavioral d. psychosocial
Robert Sternberg is the individual whose name is most clearly linked with the:
a. triarchic theory view of intelligence b. psychometric, factor analytic view of intelligence c. multiple intelligences view of intelligence d. development of the intelligence quotient
In order to rule out abnormal behaviors caused by brain tumors or disease, psychologists often utilize:
a. clinical interviews c. the Rorschach inkblot test b. psychological tests d. neurological exams
Forgetting can be studied by requiring the subject to match a stimulus presented earlier, a procedure called ____________
a. DMTS b. MTSD c. MTS d. the extinction method