One of the most difficult problems for any teacher is a child who consistently disrupts class. Researchers have shown that giving attention in the form of scolding to a disruptive child actually increases the child's misbehavior. In the terms of operant conditioning, the scolding is a ____.?

Suppose that you are watching television just after a Congressional election, and your favorite candidate has won—although the election was close. You say to a friend, "Well, I was really quite confident that he would win." This might be an exam

a. a conjunction fallacy. b. the framing effect. c. the hindsight bias. d. the representativeness heuristic.

According to Thomas and Chess, a child that is very irregular in sleeping and eating, resists change, and tends to be loud is labeled a(n) __________ child

a) easy b) difficult c) slow-to-warm-up d) negative