In the Skinner's System, This Is Conditioning Based on Activities

question 43

Multiple Choice

In the Skinner's system, this is conditioning based on activities producing effects:

• A) natural reflex
• B) language
• C) operant conditioning
• D) ineffective conditioning
• E) productivity

Examine the role of peers and social interactions in adolescent development.

Analyze cognitive development stages according to Piaget and their implications on learning and reasoning.

Consider the impact of psychosocial crises throughout human development according to Erikson.

Understand the concepts of economies and diseconomies of scale.

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Definitions:

Learned Helplessness

A possible explanation for some depressive behavior, based on findings that organisms in aversive situations learn to show inactivity when their behavior is not reinforced.

Hallucinations

Perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli, which have qualities of real perception.

Ideas of Persecution

False beliefs that one is being harassed, harmed, poisoned or conspired against by others, often seen in paranoid disorders.

Catatonia

A psychiatric condition marked by a variety of motor behaviors, from physical rigidity to hyperactivity and immobility.