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A Psychologist Wants to Obtain a Measure of Children's Attention

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A psychologist wants to obtain a measure of children's attention spans under quiet conditions.She arranges for a group of children to meet individually with a research assistant who reads each child a list of numbers and then asks the child to repeat the numbers in reverse order.A week later the children repeat this task.The psychologist finds that the scores that each child received at week one and at week two tend to be very similar.She concludes that this test has high


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Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, emphasizing the effects of behavior on future behavior.

Negative Reinforcement

A process in behavioral psychology where the removal of an unpleasant stimulus strengthens a behavior.

Reciprocal Determinism

A concept in psychology positing that an individual's behavior is influenced by and influences their personal factors and the environment in a cyclical manner.

Vygotsky's Theory

A theory in psychology proposed by Lev Vygotsky, which emphasizes the fundamental role of social interaction in the development of cognition.

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