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Answers:
1. The girl in the second picture
is using generalization. 
2. The girl in front of the lockers
is exhibiting discrimination. 
3. Possible answers include: All
cafeteria food is bad; all long
movies are boring. 
4. A possible answer is that it is
important to judge people as
individuals and not generalize
about them.
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3. Amanda learns that
she will receive
attention if she
plays with others. 
Answers:
1. Amanda receives
attention when she
is playing alone. 
2. Amanda learns that
she will not receive
attention if she
plays alone. 
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4. The teacher
reduces the amount
of praise she gives
Amanda to see if
the behavior is
becoming selfmotivated; the goal
is to get Amanda to
play with others
without needing
reinforcement.
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Answers:
1. The girl who is reading and
two students that are writing
are earning tokens. 
2. Tokens can be traded for items
at the Token Exchange. 
3. Expected behaviors are
included on the notice on the
bulletin board and through
teacher explanation. 
4. Answers will vary. You may say
previous behaviors will return
when tokens are no longer
given or that new behaviors will
last.
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Answers:
1. Semantic memory
contains this type of
knowledge. 
2. Episodic memory
contains the
memories of our
own life. 
3. We have semantic
memory in common
with others. 
4. We share these
common memories
with other speakers
of our language.
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Answers:
1. Memories of daily life as
well as things we learned in
school but never need to
use may decay. 
2. With proactive
interference we could
forget more recent
events. 
3. They are forgotten in
favor of more recent
memories. 
4. They remain in memory
but are no longer
accessible.
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Answers:
1. No, images are mental
representations, not exact
copies. 
2. In English, OAK TREE
represents to all English
speakers a tree similar to
the one shown in the
image picture. 
3. Trees, autumn trees,
woods, and forest are the
classes of objects
represented by the
concept.
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Answers:
1. I attended school last
year. Language is a
human form of
communication. How do
we acquire language? 
2. One possible answer is:
Last year I attended
school. 
3. Syntax rules help us by
providing order to our
communication. 
4. In the first sentence the
6. In the first sentence
speaker is trying to
match means “to keep
remember. In the second
pace” and in the second
sentence the speaker
it is referring to an event.
does remember. 
5. The primary clue is the
punctuation marks. 
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Answers:
1. The runner needs
water and rest. 
2. Getting his diploma
and finishing school
are some of the
motivations he
used. 
4. Internally, he may
have been
motivated by a
desire to achieve or
the feeling of
accomplishment.
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3. He may have been
externally motivated
by his parents,
societies
expectations or the
promise of job
opportunities. 
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Answers:
1. The boy’s anxiety
level would be low,
and he would show
confidence.
2. He may make
excuses to explain
his failure. 
3. Psychologists
believe most will
choose the center
puzzle which is
challenging but
4. If he was motivated by
should be
a fear of failure he
completed in a
would probably choose
reasonable
the simple jigsaw
amount of time. 
puzzle.
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3. Physiological reactions would
be a racing heart for the girl,
sweating for the boy, and
trembling for the family. 
4. After exposure to the stimulus
the girl will probably pull her
hand back, the boy may hit the
key board, and the family may
yell joyfully.
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Answers:
1. In the fist picture
it is the iron, in
the second it is
the computer,
and in the third it
is the returning
husband. 
2. The girl is
experiencing
pain, the boy is
experiencing
anger, and the
family is
experiencing
excitement. 
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