Children and Adolescents Are Never Asked to Give Consent for Participation

question 34

True/False

Children and adolescents are never asked to give consent for participation in research because they cannot understand what they are agreeing to.

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Definitions:

Extinguished

In behavioral psychology, it refers to the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response.

Deconditioned

A loss of physical fitness or undoing of the effects of conditioning, often as a result of inactivity or training cessation.

Social Learning

A theory that proposes people can learn new behaviors and attitudes through observation of others' actions and outcomes.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.