When His Mother Offered to Play Leapfrog with Him, Jorge

question 33

Multiple Choice

When his mother offered to play leapfrog with him, Jorge protested, "I'm not going to play a girl's game!" Jorge's reaction best illustrates the impact of

• A) behavior genetics.
• B) gender schemas.
• C) a pruning process. collectivism.

Understand the role of immediacy, magnitude, and quality of reinforcement in operant conditioning.

Recognize the concepts of avoidance, escape, and learned helplessness within the context of operant conditioning.

Analyze real-life scenarios to identify operant conditioning principles at work.

Understand the concept of shaping behavior through successive approximations.

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