A Very Large Meta-Analysis (Didden Et Al

question 28

Multiple Choice

A very large meta-analysis (Didden et al.,1997) on the treatment of problem behavior of people with mental retardation found that:

• A)conduct of a functional analysis provided did not improve treatment outcome.
• B)contingency management procedures were more effective than other procedures.
• C)stimulus control was by far the most effective behavior intervention of the 64 studied.
• D)use of a formal behavioral analysis made treatments longer and more complicated to implement.

Comprehend the influence of hormones on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Understand the theories explaining human emotions and their physiological and cognitive components.

Identify factors contributing to obesity and understand the health risks associated.

Understand instinctual behaviors and their evolutionary significance.

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Definitions:

Lexical Decision Task

An experimental procedure where participants classify stimuli as words or non-words, used to investigate cognitive processes related to language.

Perceptual Masking Task

A technique in cognitive psychology used to investigate the limitations of sensory processing by presenting one visual stimulus immediately after another, influencing the perception of the first.

Dichotic Listening Task

A task in which a person hears two or more different, specially recorded messages over earphones and is asked to attend to one of them.

Stroop Task

A task invented by J. R. Stroop in which a participant sees a list of words (color terms) printed in an ink color that differs from the word named (e.g., green printed in blue ink). The participant is asked to name the ink colors of the words in the list and demonstrates great difficulty in doing so relative to a condition in which non-color words form the stimuli.