A teacher is helping a withdrawn child to increase his interaction with other students. The teacher has the other children in the classroom smile and compliment the child when he talks to them. The teacher also instructs the other children not to laugh when the withdrawn child has problems speaking. Which strategy for promoting generalization is the teacher using?
a. modifying contingencies of reinforcement and punishment in the natural environment
b. training skills that contact natural contingencies of reinforcement
c. incorporating a variety of relevant stimulus situations in training
d. teaching a range of functionally equivalent responses
a
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the study has been conducted, Megumi realizes that the loud room was lit more brightly than the quiet room. This difference in the level of light is an example of a a. confound. b. control group. c. threat to external validity. d. subject variable.
Which individual is most likely to have high blood pressure?
a. Rebecca, a 45-year-old white woman b. Randy, a 50-year-old Asian American male c. Raul, an 60-year-old Mexican American male d. Rosa, an 80-year-old African American woman
Katie learns how to swim one summer. The next summer, she goes to the pool and realizes that she still remembers how to swim. Katie is using _____ memory.
A) explicit B) procedural C) semantic D) working
An awareness of our own thought processes, and our beliefs about the way our mind operates
is known as: A) assimilation. B) accommodation. C) domain specific knowledge. D) theory of mind.