Mrs. Hermann uses a sticker chart in her first grade classroom to promote desirable behaviors and decrease the unwanted ones. The stickers on the chart represent the reinforcement, but the use of the chart represents a form of

A strategy that involves analyzing the difference between the current situation and the desired goal, and then reducing the discrepancy, is called ______

a. means-end analysis c. a problem-solving set b. compensatory modeling d. creating subgoals

Your roommate is pregnant and she gets very angry and yells quite a bit over the smallest things. What is a good piece of advice that you could give her?

a. It is OK if she gets upset, but she should not yell. It will harm the fetus's hearing. b. Getting angry and yelling is good for the fetus since it will raise the fetus's heart rate. c. She should probably get a different boyfriend. He is not going to be a very good father . d. That she should try relaxation therapy. Whenever she gets really upset, her fetus gets very upset too.