Identify the Type of Error That Occurs When Infants Make

question 80

Multiple Choice

Identify the type of error that occurs when infants make the mistake of selecting a familiar hiding place rather than a new hiding place as they progress into Piaget's fourth substage of the sensorimotor stage.

• A) Type 1 error
• B) Type 2 error
• C) F-not-N error
• D) A-not-B error

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Definitions:

Behavior Modification

A therapeutic approach designed to change specific undesirable behaviors using reinforcement principles.

Classical Conditioning

The method of instruction where a response is learned by associating a stimulus from the environment with one that occurs naturally.

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

A stimulus that naturally triggers a response without any prior learning or conditioning.

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

An initially neutral stimulus that, after being linked with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to elicit a conditioned response over time.