5 Maleah and Mara Are Sitting at a Table Playing

question 76

Multiple Choice

5 Maleah and Mara are sitting at a table playing with play dough.They are each playing alone,but occasionally look to see what the other is doing.Maleah and Mara are engaged in

• A)parallel play.
• B)associative play.
• C)cooperative play.
• D)make-believe play.

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

Learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others and the outcomes of those behaviors, without direct personal experience.

Intermittent Reinforcement

A conditioning schedule in which a behavior is reinforced only some of the time, leading to more resistant and lasting behavioral changes.

Continuous Reinforcement

A method of learning that involves rewarding a behavior every time it occurs, leading to faster acquisition of the behavior.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, it refers to the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.