Kayla Was Given Several Different,brightly Colored Balls to Play with One

question 95

Short Answer

Kayla was given several different,brightly colored balls to play with one after the other.After about ball number seven,Kayla seemed to lose interest.When she was given a stuffed animal,she showed renewed interest.An element of schematic learning called ________ is behind Kayla's renewed interest.

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Definitions:

Overgeneralization

Distortion of thinking in which a person draws sweeping conclusions based on only one incident or event and applies those conclusions to events that are unrelated to the original; the tendency to interpret a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat and failure.

Extinction

The process through which a conditioned response is weakened by presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus, eventually leading to the response disappearing.

Behavioral Paradigms

refer to established models or patterns that outline specific methods for studying and understanding behavior.

Selective Abstraction

A cognitive distortion that involves focusing solely on certain negative aspects of a situation while ignoring the positive aspects.