The view that the behaviors that constitute an individual's personality are specific to given
situations rather than long-term traits is known as
a. situational determinism.
b. explicit environmentalism.
c. situationism.
d. environmental determinism.
e. situational causation.
c. situationism.
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All of the following are ways in which mental health professionals might function as scientist-practitioners EXCEPT
A. analyzing their own motivations and reasons for helping people with psychological problems. B. evaluating their own assessments and treatments for effectiveness. C. conducting research leading to new information about mental disorders and their treatments. D. using the most current diagnostic and treatment procedures.
In __________, reinforcers strengthen the responses they follow-that is, reinforcers alter the environmental __________ of behavior.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
You are babysitting your friend's son Mani, who is 5 years old, and daughter Shivani, who is 8 years old. You give them both 5 small pieces of candy, but Mani's row of candies is more spread out than Shivani's row
Mani begins to pout, and does not seem to understand that both he and Shivani have the same number of candies. This is because Mani is in what Piaget called the ___ stage of development, which is characterized by the belief that ___. a. preoperational; "there's more than meets the eye" b. preoperational; "what you see is what you get" c. operational; "there's more than meets the eye" d. operational; "what you see is what you get"
Young teens are not as good as older teens at thinking abstractly. What can help them to learn
to do so? a. They need to experiment with their formal operational schemes before they are proficient at using them. b. They need complex problems and examples that will help them to acquire the ability to think abstractly. c. Their executive processes need time to mature. d. They need to take more abstract courses such as philosophy.