Teachers Attempt to Gain Insight

question 89

Multiple Choice

Teachers attempt to gain insight

• A) regarding a family if the parents seem willing to collaborate.
• B) regarding children's home cultures if they appear drastically different from their own.
• C) by studying children's home cultures and histories.
• D) if they have time, but otherwise rely heavily on the family to provide needed information about the child's history.
• E) All of these answers are correct.

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Definitions:

Conditioning

Conditioning is a process of behavior modification by which a subject comes to respond in a desired manner to a previously neutral stimulus.

Stimulus Presentation

The act of introducing a stimulus to a subject's sensory medium (e.g., visual, auditory) to provoke a response or examine the subject's behavior in psychological experiments.

Schedule of Reinforcement

A plan or strategy in behavioral psychology for determining which responses will be reinforced to shape or modify behavior.

Partial Reinforcement

A conditioning strategy in which a reward is not administered every time the desired behavior is performed, often leading to more resistant behavior change.