Research Regarding Early Intervention Programs Such as Head Start Indicates

question 50

Multiple Choice

Research regarding early intervention programs such as Head Start indicates that such programs

• A) are ineffective.
• B) may help improve the functioning of mentally retarded children.
• C) may help prevent "at risk" children from developing cultural-familial disability.
• D) help parents manage the behavior of their mentally retarded children.

Understand the foundational experiments and theories in behavioral psychology that have shaped the understanding of learning and behavior.

Understand the basic concepts and terminology of classical and operant conditioning.

Explain the processes of acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, stimulus generalization, and stimulus discrimination in classical conditioning.

Describe the principles of reinforcement schedules and their effects on behavior in operant conditioning.

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