One of the authors knew a little boy named Jerry. He was about 3 years old. Jerry
was a terror. He would throw stones at cars and people, knock over other children's
bikes, etc.
His mother would smile at him and tell him to be a good boy whenever he did
these things, but when her irritation mounted she would explode and punish him for some
trivial thing. One of the main problems she had was
(a) insensitivity to the effects of regression to the mean
(b) lack of consistency
(c) she generalized her responses inappropriately
(d) she did not take into account the possibility that spontaneous recovery
would occur
B
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