Research Has Found That the Cause of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder May

question 46

Multiple Choice

Research has found that the cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder may be linked to all of the following EXCEPT

• A) genetics.
• B) classical conditioning.
• C) operant conditioning.
• D) observational learning.

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Definitions:

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged around 7-12 years gain the ability to think logically about concrete events.

Concrete Operations

a stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged 7 to 12 years become capable of logical thought processes but are not yet able to handle abstract reasoning.

Conservation Tasks

Cognitive tests used in developmental psychology that measure a child's ability to understand that certain properties of objects can remain the same despite changes in the object's form or appearance.

A-not-B Effect

A cognitive error observed in infants, where they repeatedly reach for an object at a place (A) where it was previously found, even after seeing it moved to a new location (B).