In a study by Professor Heath, children ages 5 and 10 were asked to complete the following pattern: mn mn m___. Most five-year-old children answered correctly with respect to shape, but were at chance with respect to color. In other words, they were just as likely to complete the pattern with a white square as a black square. In contrast, most ten-year-old children answered correctly with respect to both shape and color (i.e., they put a black square in the blank). This example best demonstrates which of the following mechanisms of change?
a. automatization
b. encoding
c. habituation
d. statistical learning
b. encoding
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Eight-year-old Jaime is in the third grade. He is very good at drawing and frequently receives praise from his parents and teachers. According to Erikson, Jaime will develop a sense of ________
Fill in the blanks with correct word
The social learning approach to the treatment of aggressive children developed by Patterson and colleagues involves
A) removing rewards for aggressive behavior. B) establishing other means of attaining rewards. C) rewarding children for non-aggressive behavior. D) all of the above
Discuss the importance of parental blood tests in the discovery of genetic disorders in the infant.
What will be an ideal response?
The correspondence between the classmates children perceive as popular and those classified as popular based on peer preferences is ________, which suggests that children perceived as popular ________.
A. strong; are very likely to be actually popular B. moderate; are not, and many children are more popular than they are perceived to be C. weak; are no more likely to be popular than are other children D. negative; are likely to be unpopular