According to the Behaviorists, Early Childhood Is a Time of Urgent

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Multiple Choice

According to the behaviorists, early childhood is a time of urgent drives, crushing frustrations, and

• A) powerful psychosexual urges and fixations.
• B) incongruence and conditions of worth.
• C) the child's identification with the same-sex parent in order to resolve the conflicts of the phallic stage.
• D) powerful punishments and rewards, including social reinforcement.

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Definitions:

Hallucinations

False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.

Night Terrors

A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during N3 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered.

Sleep Spindles

Bursts of brain activity visible on an EEG that occur during stage 2 of sleep, thought to be related to learning and memory.

Circadian Rhythms

Natural, internal processes that regulate the sleep-wake cycle and repeat roughly every 24 hours.