A Child Sneaks Out of His House Every Now and Then

question 84

Multiple Choice

A child sneaks out of his house every now and then and goes through the neighborhood breaking lawn decorations and scratching car paint.These behaviors MOST closely fit which pattern of conduct disorder?

• A) overt-destructive
• B) overt-nondestructive
• C) covert-destructive
• D) covert-nondestructive

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Definitions:

Sign-Stimuli

External sensory cues that trigger a specific, often instinctual, behavior in an organism.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that involves creating associations between a naturally occurring stimulus and a previously neutral stimulus.

Instrumental Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by the behavior's consequences, such as reward or punishment.

Instinctive Drift

The inclination of an animal to return to innate behaviors that disrupt a learned response.