One of Your Fellow Students Is Continually Late to Class

question 90

Multiple Choice

One of your fellow students is continually late to class. The professor has tried numerous verbal warnings and recently took points away from the student's grade. The professor's actions are consistent with which of the following reinforcement techniques?

• A) Negative reinforcement
• B) Punishment
• C) Positive reinforcement
• D) Avoidance learning
• E) Rewards enhancement

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Definitions:

Orphanages

Residential institutions dedicated to the care of children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them.

Centration

The tendency of young children to focus only on one aspect of an object or situation, a characteristic of preoperational stage of cognitive development.

Egocentrism

A cognitive characteristic where an individual is unable to distinguish between their own perspective and that of others, often observed in early childhood development.

Piagetian Term

Pertains to concepts and terminologies introduced by Jean Piaget in his theory of cognitive development, which outlines how children progress through four stages of cognitive growth.