Maura and Trish Are Eighth Graders Who Have Been Caught

question 78

Multiple Choice

Maura and Trish are eighth graders who have been caught smoking. Maura's parents yell at her, ground her for a month, and take away her television and Internet privileges for 2 months. Trish's parents talk to her about their disappointment and concern; additionally, they make her spend every afternoon for a week at the library researching the dangers of smoking and discussing her findings with them each night at dinner. Most likely, Maura's parents are _____ and Trish's are _____.

• A)authoritative; permissive
• B)authoritative; authoritarian
• C)authoritarian; permissive
• D)authoritarian; authoritative

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Definitions:

Behavioral Contrast

The change in the strength of one response occurring in the context of the changed reinforcement conditions for an alternative response.

Lashley-Wade Model

A theoretical framework for understanding how behavior is learned and modified, although not widely recognized, it suggests a focus on experimental analysis of behavior.

Discrimination Training

The process of reinforcing a response to a specific stimulus while not reinforcing responses to similar stimuli, thereby teaching the subject to differentiate between the stimuli.

Generalization Test Stimuli

Stimuli that are not exactly the same as the conditioned stimulus but are similar enough to elicit the conditioned response, used to test the breadth of stimulus generalization.