Which personality disorder is Joan Didion describing when she uses the phrase "only marginally engaged in the dailiness of life" in her novel The White Album?

Mary arrives home to find her son washing the dirty dishes left from his party the night before. When she discovers his first-semester grade report on the table and sees that he got straight A's,

Mary rewards him by relieving him of the unpleasant task of finishing the dishes. Which operant process does the example illustrate? a. positive reinforcement b. negative reinforcement c. extinction d. punishment

Professionals that adjust the way that machines and technologies work so that older workers can learn and operate them more efficiently are called:

a. career counselors b. transitional counselors c. human factors engineers d. technologicians