Dillon is four years old, and his parents want to teach him to say "Please" and "Thank you.". They will be most successful in altering Dillon's behavior if they use
a. classical conditioning.
b. higher-order conditioning.
c. non-contingent reinforcement.
d. operant conditioning.
D
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a. 15% b. 21% c. 41% d. 62%
Anne has noticed that for the past three weeks, she is unable to sleep for more than five hours at a time, even though she used to regularly get eight hours of sleep per night. She wakes early in the morning and just can't fall back to sleep once this happens. It appears that Anne has developed
a. somnambulism. b. insomnia. c. pseudoinsomnia. d. sleep apnea.
A father is helping his daughter to learn about animals. He points to a robin and eagle and explains that there are birds that fly, while the ostrich and penguin are examples of birds that do not fly. He then shows her pictures of a bat and a flying squirrel and tells her that these are not birds, but that the bat can actually fly and the flying squirrel can glide through the air. To help his
daughter learn the concept of "bird," the father is using a. conceptual rules. b. algorithms. c. prototyping. d. positive and negative instances.
Double-barreled questions ____
a. are difficult to code b. should be avoided. c. are those items that combine two separate questions into one. d. all of these