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According to ___________ theory, children learn primarily through modeling.
A) reinforcement
B) operant conditioning
C) social learning
D) classical conditioning - ANSWER-social learning
According to social learning theory, as children grow older they
A) become more selective in what they imitate.
B) become less selective in what they imitate.
,C) imitate more than they model.
D) respond more favorably to punishment than reinforcement - ANSWER-become
more selective in what they imitate.
Behavior modification eliminates undesirable behaviors by
A) exposing children to group therapy.
B) having patients talk freely about painful childhood events.
C) improving children's social settings, such as school and home.
D) combining conditioning and modeling - ANSWER-combining conditioning and
modeling
______________ interviews do not yield the same depth of information as
______________ interviews.
A) Clinical; naturalistic
B) Clinical; structured
C) Structured; clinical
D) Structured; naturalistic - ANSWER-Structured; clinical
Jade spent two years in a Mexican-American community studying communication
between parents and children. Jade is using the _____________ research method.
A) naturalistic observation
B) ethnographic
C) self-report
D) structured observation - ANSWER-naturalistic observation
A(n) _______________ is a number that describes how two measures are
associated with each other.
,A) correlation coefficient
B) independent variable
C) dependent variable
D) random assignment - ANSWER-correlation coefficient
Two main types of designs used in all research on human behavior are
_____________ and ____________.
A) observational; experimental
B) correlational; experimental
C) observational; correlational
D) variable; observational - ANSWER-correlational; experimental
A(n) _______________ design permits inferences about cause and effect.
A) structured
B) observational
C) experimental
D) correlational - ANSWER-experimental
The ______________ variable is the one the investigator expects to cause changes
in another variable.
A) correlational
B) independent
C) dependent
D) coefficient - ANSWER-independent
A dependent variable is the
, A) one the investigator expects to be influenced by the independent variable.
B) number that describes how two measures are associated with each other.
C) number that shows the strength of the relationship between two measures.
D) one the investigator randomly assigns to represent participant characteristic -
ANSWER-one the investigator expects to be influenced by the independent
variable.
In an experiment on the effects of music versus acting lessons on intelligence, the
independent variable would be
A) the type of lessons (music versus acting).
B) a measure of intelligence.
C) the type of music lessons.
D) the frequency of the acting lessons. - ANSWER-the type of lessons (music
versus acting)
In a __________ design, investigators study the same group of participants
repeatedly at different ages.
A) sequential
B) correlational
C) cross-sectional
D) longitudinal - ANSWER-longitudinal
A major strength of the longitudinal design is that researchers can
A) examine relationships between early and later behaviors.
B) collect a large amount of data in a short time span.
C) explore similarities among children of different cohorts.