Psychologists Become Concerned Only When a Child Deviates Substantially from Developmental

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Short Answer

Psychologists become concerned only when a child deviates substantially from developmental __________ .

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Definitions:

Token Economy

A controlled environment in which people are reinforced for desired behaviors with tokens (such as poker chips) that may be exchanged for privileges.

Gold Stars

Symbolic markers of achievement or recognition, often used in educational settings to motivate or reward.

Reward System

A group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., motivation and desire), associative learning (primarily positive reinforcement and classical conditioning), and positively-valenced emotions, particularly those involved in reward-associated memory.

Psychodynamic Theory

Sigmund Freud’s perspective, which emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as forces that determine behavior.