Developmental psychologist Dr. Wiggles is interested in preschool children's helping behavior. He spends hours watching children at the campus preschool, taking great care not to interfere with the children or to influence their behavior in any way. What data collection technique is Dr. Wiggles using?

a. Case study
b. Naturalistic observation
c. Meta-analysis
d. Structured observation

b

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To observe conditioning, one could ring a bell and squirt lemon juice into Johnny's mouth. By repeating this procedure several times, you could condition Johnny to salivate to the bell. Conditioning will be most rapid if the US follows immediately after the CS. In this example, the US would be

a. the lemon juice. b. the bell. c. salivation to the bell. d. salivation to the lemon juice.

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