The Parent Who Always Flushes the Toilet for a Three-

question 61

Short Answer

The parent who always flushes the toilet for a three- or four-year-old child may be one who does not promote the development of ____________________, Erikson's third stage of development.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A way of changing the force of a behavior using rewards or penalties as influencing factors.

Shaping

A method in behavioral psychology where reinforces guide an organism's behavior towards a desired goal through successive approximations.

Successive Approximations

A behavioral training process that rewards actions that progressively more closely resemble the desired behavior.

Generalization

The tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli.