Psychology Answers

What playful, problem-solving activity is most instrumental in an individual’s cognitive development?

What games are more appropriate at different stages of cognitive development?

Can a game be conducive to the stimulation of the brain’s different language areas?

How can you use two timelines to show the development of brain physiology in relation to the individual’s sensory and motor development and make detailed comparisons between the two?

Dr. Williams, a school psychologist, was
working with an extremely socially withdrawn
adolescent, Jenny. Dr. Williams decided to use
shaping to help Jenny develop appropriate social
skills. He identified the target behavior as making
eye contact, smiling, standing up straight, talking
at a normal voice volume, and nodding and paraphrasing
when the other person said something.
Dr. Williams was going to reinforce successive
approximations of this target behavior in therapy
sessions, in which he played the role of a classmate
and engaged in conversations with Jenny.
In each session, Dr. Williams and Jenny roleplayed
four or five short conversations. Before
each role-play sessions, Dr. Williams reminded
Jenny which behaviors she should work on. As a
reinforcer for exhibiting the correct behavior in
the role-play sessions, Dr. Williams bought Jenny
an ice cream cone in the school cafeteria once a
week. What is the problem with this application
of shaping?

Describe the major historical schools of psychological thought leading up to the development of cognitive psychology.

Phonetic transcription
a. Write the correct phonetic symbol for each of the the brackets sounds. Remember to present the phonetic transcripts in square brackets.
I. F(oo)d
II. Cru(sh)
iii. Dr(ou)ght
iv.b(ou)ght
v.c(ou)ntry
vi. (c)arry
b. For (II) and (vi) above, indicate the nature (e.g voiced, voiceless, or neither), place, as well as manner of articulations of the brackets sounds.
c. For (i) and (v) above, indicate if the brackets vowels sounds are examples of monophthongs or diphthongs.
d. The (phonetic ) symbol (e) represent a short vowel sound. True or false

Homophones, homonyms, heteronyms and homographs
Read the following sentences and indicate if the pairs of the brackets words in each sentence are examples of homonyms, homophones or homographs :
a. I (pray) that I do not fall (prey) to the scam.
b. She cannot (bear) the sight of a (bear).
c. (I) do not like it when you (eye) me.

Jody asked her father to teach her how to drive. Her father had recently taken a class in behavior modification and reasoned that because driving was a novel behavior for Jody, she could be taught how to drive by a shaping procedure. What is the problem with this application of shaping?

For this demonstration, on average, do participants give higher ratings for single events or conjunctions of events? Based on the demonstration results, did you make your judgments by using objective probabilities? Why or why not?
What is a stereotype? How do stereotypes relate to the findings of this demonstration?
Respond to the following two situations:
You and two of your coworkers have just interviewed a candidate for a job opening at your law firm. Your boss asks you what inferences you made about the candidate during the interview. What can you do to maximize your likelihood of making a correct inference?
John is a young, energetic, muscular, and outgoing individual. Estimate the following for him:
He is tall and likes sports
He is tall, likes sports, and has lots of friends