Two- to 5-Year-Old Children Copy Senseless and Irrelevant Adult Actions

question 23

Multiple Choice

Two- to 5-year-old children copy senseless and irrelevant adult actions such as stroking a plastic jar with a feather before reaching inside the jar for a toy.This best illustrates

• A) a conditioned response.
• B) instinctive drift.
• C) vicarious reinforcement.
• D) overimitation.

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Definitions:

Sensory Memory

A very short-term type of memory that holds sensory information, allowing it to be experienced just long enough to be processed further.

Partial Reports

A method in cognitive psychology where participants are asked to recall or recognize a subset of the presented information.

Visually Presented

Something shown or displayed through visual means, such as images, diagrams, or videos.

Suffix Effect

A phenomenon where the presence of an extraneous sound at the end of a list can impair recall of the final items, relevant in studies of memory and auditory processing.