Your coworker has a 5-year-old son whom she disciplines with physical punishment frequently and as a first resort
One day she tells you that even physical punishment is not helping her son to behave better and that she is going to try a different approach. You support her decision to stop physically punishing her son, and, citing your text, you tell her that longitudinal research has even discovered that receiving physical punishment as a child is frequently associated with
spousal abuse in adulthood
strong will and character in adulthood
development of self-control and educational attainment in adulthood
severe psychological problems, including psychosis
spousal abuse in adulthood
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Seth is thinking about paying his brother to make his bed every week
Eventually Seth wants to get by without paying his brother while the brother continues to make Seth's bed for a while. He decides to pay his brother every three weeks instead of every week. What process or procedure is Seth using? a) serial learning b) the law of effect c) the partial reinforcement effect d) the law of limited reinforcement
According to the article Some Restrictions May Apply about maltreated children, Wayne Dennis subjected the twin girls in his study to:
(a) 5 hours of television every day (b) rewards for any good behavior they performed (c) nearly complete deprivation of all verbal and physical stimulation (d) two completely different homes in order to see if they would develop at the same rate anyway