Your 5-Year-Old Son Has Not Been Eating a Balanced Diet

question 212

Multiple Choice

Your 5-year-old son has not been eating a balanced diet lately even though you provide well-balanced meals for him.You tell him that if he eats all of his vegetables, you will let him have dessert.Although many parents in the United States bribe their children in this manner, what is the likely result?

• A)Children learn to eat a balanced diet.
• B)Children come to associate vegetables with dessert and begin eating quite a bit more vegetables.
• C)Bribing children to eat their vegetables results in children viewing healthy foods as a trial and unhealthy foods as a reward.
• D)Children refuse to eat vegetables unless they get sweet treats before eating vegetables.

---

Definitions:

Private Psychotherapy

A form of mental health treatment involving private one-on-one sessions between a therapist and client to address psychological issues.

Mental Illness

A comprehensive span of psychological ailments that alter emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

Clinical Psychology

The study, assessment, treatment, and prevention of abnormal behavior.

Biological Perspective

A way of looking at psychological issues by focusing on the physical and biological bases of behavior, including genetic, neurological, and physiological processes.