Research Regarding Attribution Retraining Indicates That

question 1

Multiple Choice

Research regarding attribution retraining indicates that:

• A) It is effective with adults but not with children.
• B) One effective strategy is to teach students how to attribute their performance to controllable factors.
• C) Retraining is most effective when students don't encounter failure experiences.
• D) Attributions, once established, are almost impossible to change.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

An instructional process wherein the forcefulness of a behaviour is changed by the application of incentives or deterrents.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Response

An automatic, innate reaction to a stimulus that occurs without prior learning or conditioning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, now elicits a conditioned response.