Describe the pros and cons associated with group therapy for adolescents with substance abuse disorders

What will be an ideal response?

• Can be effective particularly if based on CBT principles
• Adolescents are social by nature; peer support and/or modeling can be effective
• Adolescents can also provide "deviance training" in providing information and modeling of further substance abuse
• In-school programs have shown some promise

Psychology

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It is hard to teach pigs to use piggy banks because

(a) pigs cannot be classically conditioned; they extinguish right away (b) pigs cannot be operantly conditioned; they extinguish right away (c) pigs are simply not intelligent enough to learn (d) behavior is not infinitely flexible (e) any behavior can be conditioned, as shown by Skinner

Psychology

Skinner (1957) argued that children learn language via instrumental conditioning. In contrast, ___ argued that it would be impossible for children to learn language because it is too complex

a. Saffran b. Piaget c. MacWhinney d. Chomsky

Psychology