Six-Year-Old Sam Asks Only His Father If He Can Stay

question 126

Multiple Choice

Six-year-old Sam asks only his father if he can stay up past his bedtime and never asks his mother.Which term could be used to describe Sam's father

• A) generalized stimulus
• B) reinforcement 
• C) discriminative stimulus
• D) schedule of reinforcement

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Definitions:

Baumrind's Parenting Styles

A model that classifies parental behaviors into three main types: authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative, based on the level of responsiveness and demandingness.

Power Assertion

A disciplinary tactic employed by parents or caregivers involving the use of authority, threats, or physical force to enforce child compliance.

Authoritarian

describes a leadership or governing style characterized by strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

A hypothetical module of the human mind posited to account for children's innate predisposition for language acquisition.