First-Time Parents Geena and Brad Want to Give Their Baby's

question 86

Multiple Choice

First-time parents Geena and Brad want to give their baby's intellectual abilities a jump-start by providing a super enriched learning environment. Experts would suggest that the new parents should

• A) pipe stimulating classical music into the baby's room.
• B) hang colorful mobiles and artwork over the baby's crib.
• C) take the child to one of the new "superbaby" preschools that specialize in infant enrichment.
• D) relax, since there is no surefire environmental recipe for giving a child a

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Definitions:

Food Preference

The selection of certain foods over others, often influenced by cultural, biological, and individual factors.

Discrimination Learning

The ability to differentiate between two or more stimuli, learning to respond to one stimulus but not the others.

Hull-Spence Model

A theory of learning that combines the drive-reduction theory of Clark Hull with the incentive theory of Kenneth Spence, focusing on how reinforcement and drive interact in producing learning behaviors.

Kohler's Relational Approach

A theory in gestalt psychology proposed by Wolfgang Köhler, emphasizing that the nature of parts of a whole is not determined just by the physical properties of the parts but by their relational roles within the whole context.