One Strategy for Parents Who Wish to Reduce the Harmful

question 74

Multiple Choice

One strategy for parents who wish to reduce the harmful effects of television on their children is to help them evaluate what they are watching. This does not happen often because

• A)parents tend to be unable to evaluate the shows themselves.
• B)parental television literacy is too low.
• C)co-viewing in the home tends not to go on while children's programming is on.
• D)co-viewing in the home tends to go on constantly.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

An instructional process in which the magnitude of a behavior is fine-tuned by using positive or negative feedback.

Variable-ratio

A reinforcement schedule in behavioral psychology where a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses.

Latent Learning

A form of learning that occurs without any obvious reinforcement of the behavior or associations that are learned.

Discrimination Learning

The process of learning to respond differently to various stimuli or situations, often by recognizing differences.