What Is the Best Way to Help a Child Cope

question 17

Multiple Choice

What is the best way to help a child cope with the death of a loved one?

• A) Hide the death of the loved one.
• B) Let the child express his or her feelings.
• C) Expect the child to cut ties with the dead person.
• D) Ignore any changes in the child's sleeping or eating patterns because these problems will pass.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction, often occurring in the absence of further conditioning.

Acquisition

The process of gaining a new skill, knowledge, behavior, or object through experience, practice, or the act of obtaining.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In psychology, the diminishing of a conditioned response when the reinforcement is withheld or the stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.