Which of the following is descriptive of Skinner's theory?
a. His system was hypotheticodeductive in its approach.
b. The causes of behavior were with the person.
c. Relational statements were objective and descriptive.
d. He emphasized intervening variables.
C
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Zorba gives his dog a treat for rolling over. Zorba explains this procedure as a form of
a. conditioned reinforcement. b. punishment. c. negative reinforcement. d. positive reinforcement. e. classical conditioning.
Money and Ehrhardt's biosocial theory of gender typing suggests all of the following EXCEPT that
a. gender-role development is strongly influenced by socialization. b. there are critical periods for the establishment of gender identity. c. early biological developments influence how parents label and treat a child at birth. d. fetal chromosomal differences (e.g., XX versus XY) are the most important factors in determining gender-role behavior.
According to Baddeley's model of working memory, people can allocate the processing of information between the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop because working memory also includes:
a. a central executive b. feature detectors c. iconic and echoic memory stores d. mnemonic processing rules
Vygotsky proposed and research has shown that children talking to themselves
a. guides their thinking and problem solving. c. reflects their egocentric view of the world. b. describes what they are doing. d. is a result of their failure to communicate.