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- Students in Mr. Miller's class are given stickers for high grades and positive behavior, while they lose recess time and must redo poor work or practice better behavior if needed. This is an example of which theorist's ideas?
- A teacher wants to increase parental involvement for a kindergarten class. After some parents did not attend the school open house at the beginning of the year, the teacher set up home visits with three families. Which of the following is the most important reason for home visits?
- A mathematics teacher gives her class a two-question clicker quiz at the end of each class period and tabulates their answers according to their mathematical understanding, misconceptions, and error patterns. If her goal is improvement in her students' mathematical proficiency, her best use of the data would be to use it to
- Mr. House has a behavior board in his second-grade class. At the end of the day, students get a 1-5 (5 being the best) score based on their behavior for the day. If the student has 23 points or higher at the end of the week, they will earn a reward; if they have less than 23 points, they will not. Which of the following theories does this technique reflect?
- According to Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs, a person cannot achieve a sense of belonging without first:
- The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for long-term rewards
- Psychologist who pioneered observational learning with bobo doll / observational learning experiments
- Psychologist who researched on contingency and that the likelihood of an event occurring will determine how well or quickly CC works, as well as helplessness and complications on behavior other then rewards
- Psychologist who pioneered research on classical conditioning with dogs and bells
- Psychologist who theorized that behavior is based on more then just stimuli, but rather, often driven by purpose, goal, and intrinsic motivation
- The hopelessness and passive resignation when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
- This type of motivation is a desire to preform a behavior effectively for its own sake; natural interest
- The altering and/or encouraging the behavior of children, family, friends, self, animals ; neg/pos reinforcements and punishments
- Resistance to eating things that make you nauseous, sick or ill
- Psychologist who pioneered research on operant conditioning by training rats to activate switches for food
- The process of observing and imitating a certain behavior or demonstrating behavior
- This type of motivation is behavior to gain external rewards or avoid punishment
- Psychologist who coined behaviorism and classical conditioning with his 'baby Albert' experiments
- learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it (giving directions in a new area)
- Accidental rewarding and/ore partial reinforcement that is incorrectly associated with a reward