Little Drew doesn't like his spaghetti dinner so he throws a temper tantrum. His dad Robert puts Drew in an empty room for three minutes and closes the door. Robert is using a procedure called:
A. avoidance conditioning
B. negative reinforcement
C. learned helplessness
D. time out
Answer: D
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a. the recovered memories result from the ineffective encoding of everyday events. b. the recovered memories are accurate accounts of earlier events. c. the recovered memories are inadvertently created in individuals after a therapist makes suggestions of childhood abuse. d. individuals purposely make up stories of abuse to damage the reputation of the accused individual.
If you discover a near zero correlation between some firefighters' aptitude test scores and their actual performance on the job, you can conclude that the test is
A) valid. B) reliable. C) not reliable. D) not valid.
A type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of response is called __________
a) classical conditioning b) behavioral perspective c) operant conditioning d) psychodynamic approach
According to your text, which nation is making a concerted effort to counteract the effects of gender role expectations?
A. Mexico B. The United States C. Sweden D. Russia