Tewana Is Reading a Book About Beetles to Her Easily

question 23

Multiple Choice

Tewana is reading a book about beetles to her easily distracted toddlers.To increase their attention, she can have them:

• A)stand and move like beetles as she reads.
• B)chirp and move their arms like a beetle's antennae every time she reads the word "beetle."
• C)lay down on the floor and move like beetles.
• D)watch one child do a dance dressed up as a beetle.

---

Definitions:

Higher-order Conditioning

A form of learning in which a stimulus is paired with a previously conditioned stimulus, creating a new conditioned response.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Neutral Stimulus

A stimulus that initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention; in classical conditioning, it becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, emphasizing the effects of consequences on behavior.