Which of the following is an example of response cost?
a. A child is spanked for breaking an expensive vase.
b. A teenager is grounded for coming in an hour late.
c. A rat learns to run a maze always turning to the right to avoid shock.
d. A woman leaves an abusive marriage in order to save her life.
B
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According to Walter Mischel, if a child experiences a particular situation, he or she will then respond with a unique, stable set of behaviors. These if-then patterns will be characteristic of an individual, leading to the stable characteristics we think of as ____
a. ?traits b. ?temperament c. ?personality d. ?self-concept
Tabula Rasa describes the learner in which of the following ways?
a. intentionality, evaluation of experience b. invents rules, discovers concepts c. the infant's mind is an empty vessel at birth d. biological constraints and predispositions
Your authors report that the research into the effectiveness
of distributed practice has been clear and unequivocal—spreading out our learning over longer intervals is much more effective then cramming our learning into shorter periods of time. This research has been repeated with the same findings over and over again. This demonstrates which principle of critical thinking from your textbook? A) Replicability B) Falsifiability C) Correlation vs. causation D) Occam's Razor
A test of positive psychology's success will be identifying which activities enable people to lead a good life
A) ?True. B) ?False.