In recent years, the diagnostic frequency of autistic disorder has exploded in an epidemic-like fashion
One explanation for this increase is that the diagnostic practices have simply changed in ways that allow for more frequent diagnoses. This demonstrates which of the six principles mentioned in your chapter?
A) Correlation vs. causation
B) Ruling out rival hypotheses
C) Occam's Razor
D) Replicability
Answer: C
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Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby stress that
A. quick attention to crying results in rewarding and increasing that behavior. B. babies can become spoiled in their first year of life. C. quick attention to crying is important in the development of a strong bond between parent and child. D. children cannot self-regulate emotions if a parent comforts their every cry.
Which of the following represents observational learning?
a. Jonathan jumps when he hears loud thunder. b. Nicholas isn't given any dessert because he didn't eat his green vegetables at dinner. c. Gina watches her mother mow the grass and then she pushes her toy lawnmower around the lawn in a similar way. d. Sara stops having temper tantrums in public when her father begins ignoring them.