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___________reinforcement involves an aversive stimulus that, when removed after
a response, strengthens the response.
Select one:
a. Negative
b. Positive
c. Moderate
d. Neutral - Answer✅✅a. Negative
When Nanette's daughter refused to brush her teeth and threw her toys across the
room, Nanette put her a 20-minute time-out during which she wasn't allowed to do
anything else. This is an example of:
Select one:
a. negative reinforcer.
b. positive punishment.
c. negative punishment.
d. conditioned reinforcer. - Answer✅✅c. negative punishment.
You have been working nights and weekends to get a project completed at work.
You are successful, and a couple of weeks later when you come into work your boss
,presents you with a bonus check. This bonus encourages you to work more nights
and weekends. Your new behavior best illustrates the value of:
Select one:
a. operant behavior.
b. negative reinforcement.
c. positive reinforcement.
d. erratic behavior. - Answer✅✅c. positive reinforcement.
The three distinct levels of moral reasoning that Kohlberg proposed are:
Select one:
a. abstract thinking, rational thinking, and logical reasoning.
b. preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
c. preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.
d. legal principles, universal moral principles, and law and order principles. -
Answer✅✅c. preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.
Researchers who emphasize experience and learning see development in terms of
_____, while those who emphasize biological maturation tend to see development
as a sequence of genetically predisposed _____.
Select one:
a. continuity; stages
b. stages; influences
c. stages; shaping processes
d. stages; continuity - Answer✅✅a. continuity; stages
_____ highlighted the antisocial effects of aggressive models on children's behavior.
One of his famous studies featured a Bobo doll.
Select one:
a. B. F. Skinner
b. Albert Bandura
c. John B. Watson
d. Ivan Pavlov - Answer✅✅b. Albert Bandura
_____ is the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty
to independence.
Select one:
a. Early adulthood
b. Adolescence
c. Puberty
d. Emerging adulthood - Answer✅✅b. Adolescence
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response
called?
Select one:
a. spontaneous recovery
b. generalization
c. acquisition
, d. negative conditioning - Answer✅✅a. spontaneous recovery
Although physical decline begins in early adulthood, it is not until later in life that
the declines become really noticeable. Which of the following does not show the
most declines in later life?
Select one:
a. visual sharpness
b. reaction time
c. moral reasoning
d. muscle strength - Answer✅✅c. moral reasoning
_____ involves a learned association between a behavior and its consequences.
Select one:
a. Operant conditioning
b. Classical conditioning
c. Respondent behavior
d. Latent learning - Answer✅✅a. Operant conditioning
Denise has just given birth to a 6-pound baby girl. Her infant's head is small and
slightly misproportioned. Denise did drink alcohol while she was pregnant, although
it is not clear how much or how often she drank. It is possible that the infant has:
Select one:
a. decreased central nervous system activity.
b. increased central nervous system activity.
c. creatinine poisoning.
d. fetal alcohol syndrome. - Answer✅✅d. fetal alcohol syndrome.
Coyotes who have been fed sheep carcasses laced with a nausea-inducing poison
are less likely to prey on sheep in the wild. This phenomenon is best explained by
which classical conditioning phenomenon?
Select one:
a. higher order conditioning
b. learned helplessness
c. taste-aversion learning
d. punishment by removal - Answer✅✅c. taste-aversion learning
One reason many adolescents are impulsive, emotional, and prone to risky behavior
without weighing the consequences is due to:
Select one:
a. an underdeveloped temporal lobe.
b. an underdeveloped occipital lobe.
c. an underdeveloped frontal lobe.
d. a less active limbic region. - Answer✅✅c. an underdeveloped frontal lobe.
Marlee was robbed in a parking garage by a person wearing strong cologne. She
now refuses to go through the male fragrance department at the department store
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___________reinforcement involves an aversive stimulus that, when removed after
a response, strengthens the response.
Select one:
a. Negative
b. Positive
c. Moderate
d. Neutral - Answer✅✅a. Negative
When Nanette's daughter refused to brush her teeth and threw her toys across the
room, Nanette put her a 20-minute time-out during which she wasn't allowed to do
anything else. This is an example of:
Select one:
a. negative reinforcer.
b. positive punishment.
c. negative punishment.
d. conditioned reinforcer. - Answer✅✅c. negative punishment.
You have been working nights and weekends to get a project completed at work.
You are successful, and a couple of weeks later when you come into work your boss
,presents you with a bonus check. This bonus encourages you to work more nights
and weekends. Your new behavior best illustrates the value of:
Select one:
a. operant behavior.
b. negative reinforcement.
c. positive reinforcement.
d. erratic behavior. - Answer✅✅c. positive reinforcement.
The three distinct levels of moral reasoning that Kohlberg proposed are:
Select one:
a. abstract thinking, rational thinking, and logical reasoning.
b. preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
c. preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.
d. legal principles, universal moral principles, and law and order principles. -
Answer✅✅c. preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.
Researchers who emphasize experience and learning see development in terms of
_____, while those who emphasize biological maturation tend to see development
as a sequence of genetically predisposed _____.
Select one:
a. continuity; stages
b. stages; influences
c. stages; shaping processes
d. stages; continuity - Answer✅✅a. continuity; stages
_____ highlighted the antisocial effects of aggressive models on children's behavior.
One of his famous studies featured a Bobo doll.
Select one:
a. B. F. Skinner
b. Albert Bandura
c. John B. Watson
d. Ivan Pavlov - Answer✅✅b. Albert Bandura
_____ is the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty
to independence.
Select one:
a. Early adulthood
b. Adolescence
c. Puberty
d. Emerging adulthood - Answer✅✅b. Adolescence
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response
called?
Select one:
a. spontaneous recovery
b. generalization
c. acquisition
, d. negative conditioning - Answer✅✅a. spontaneous recovery
Although physical decline begins in early adulthood, it is not until later in life that
the declines become really noticeable. Which of the following does not show the
most declines in later life?
Select one:
a. visual sharpness
b. reaction time
c. moral reasoning
d. muscle strength - Answer✅✅c. moral reasoning
_____ involves a learned association between a behavior and its consequences.
Select one:
a. Operant conditioning
b. Classical conditioning
c. Respondent behavior
d. Latent learning - Answer✅✅a. Operant conditioning
Denise has just given birth to a 6-pound baby girl. Her infant's head is small and
slightly misproportioned. Denise did drink alcohol while she was pregnant, although
it is not clear how much or how often she drank. It is possible that the infant has:
Select one:
a. decreased central nervous system activity.
b. increased central nervous system activity.
c. creatinine poisoning.
d. fetal alcohol syndrome. - Answer✅✅d. fetal alcohol syndrome.
Coyotes who have been fed sheep carcasses laced with a nausea-inducing poison
are less likely to prey on sheep in the wild. This phenomenon is best explained by
which classical conditioning phenomenon?
Select one:
a. higher order conditioning
b. learned helplessness
c. taste-aversion learning
d. punishment by removal - Answer✅✅c. taste-aversion learning
One reason many adolescents are impulsive, emotional, and prone to risky behavior
without weighing the consequences is due to:
Select one:
a. an underdeveloped temporal lobe.
b. an underdeveloped occipital lobe.
c. an underdeveloped frontal lobe.
d. a less active limbic region. - Answer✅✅c. an underdeveloped frontal lobe.
Marlee was robbed in a parking garage by a person wearing strong cologne. She
now refuses to go through the male fragrance department at the department store
