QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Positive vs Negative Directive - ✔✔Effectiveness of positive and negative directives
✔✔Effective Parenting Strategy - ✔✔Ignoring unwanted behavior and encouraging
positive behavior
✔✔Parents with Consistent Positive Rewards - ✔✔Effectiveness of parents using
consistent positive rewards
✔✔Positive to Negative Verbal Ratio - ✔✔5:1 positive to negative ratio for effective
communication
✔✔Prevalence of Nagging in Personal Relationships - ✔✔Reinforced on a variable
schedule of reinforcement
✔✔Effectiveness of Praise - ✔✔Boosts self-esteem, increases persistence after failure
✔✔Self-Control and Delayed Gratification - ✔✔Immediate pleasure vs delayed negative
consequences
, ✔✔Suggestions for Self-Control - ✔✔Adding or subtracting consequences, self-
monitoring
✔✔Why Self-Defeating Behaviors are not easily punished - ✔✔Delay and uncertainty in
punishing self-defeating behaviors
✔✔Differences in Viewpoints of Education - ✔✔Skinner vs Moore on education and
learning
✔✔Traditional Viewpoints on Mental Health - ✔✔Mentalistic vs environmental
explanations of mental illnesses
✔✔Benefits of Talk Therapy - ✔✔Associating painful topics with less painful feelings
✔✔Coercive Socially Contrived Deprivation - ✔✔Socially contrived deprivation is
coercive
✔✔Criminal Behavior and Human Nature - ✔✔Debate on whether criminal behavior is
detrimental to human nature
✔✔Failures of Prisons to Rehabilitate - ✔✔Misunderstanding of shaping adaptable skills
✔✔Flaw in Written Laws for Detecting Criminal Behavior - ✔✔Discretionary
implementation of the law in policing
✔✔Community Policing Strategy from a BA Standpoint - ✔✔Using tactics to shape
appropriate behaviors and build trust
✔✔Plant 2005 Study on Racial Bias - ✔✔Black suspects more likely to be accidentally
shot
✔✔Demographic Info and Interventions in High Crime Areas - ✔✔Impact of
demographic info on interventions
✔✔Philosophy of Human Behavior - ✔✔Behaviorism as theory of learning based on
conditioning
✔✔Logical Positivism - ✔✔Mental events are unobservable, no truth by agreement
✔✔Measuring Sensations and Perceptions - ✔✔Measuring capacity to discriminate
among stimuli
✔✔Methodological Behaviorism - ✔✔Behavioral events cannot be publicly observed
outside of science