Eight-year-old Anya is a recent immigrant to the United States. Based on current research, we can expect that during Anya's middle childhood years she will
a. not do well in the United States.
b. do better if she goes back to her country of origin.
c. do quite well in the United States.
d. struggle to adapt to the changes in her life.
c
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The learning theory that is best able to explain why physical punishment tends to increase aggressive behavior in children is
a. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning. b. Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning. c. Bandura's theory of observational learning. d. Rescorla's theory of signal relations.
In a typical sequence from preschool to first grade, the schedules of reinforcement that are in place in the classroom tend to
a. remain unchanged. b. be interval schedules rather than ratio schedules. c. alternate in a regular way with schedules of extinction. d. change from continuous to partial reinforcement.
A chronic and continuing struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time is characteristic of:
A. an internal locus of control B. an external locus of control C. Type B behavior D. Type A behavior
For any approximately normal distribution, how can we find the relative frequency of the scores?
a. Convert the raw scores to z-scores and then use the standard normal curve. b. Draw a graph of the raw scores and approximate the area under the curve. c. Convert the raw scores to z-scores and then use the standard error of the mean. d. Draw a graph of the raw scores and then use the standard error of the mean.