uestion Completion Status: QUESTION 2 Many individuals become wiser as they age,

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uestion Completion Status: QUESTION 2 Many individuals become wiser as they age, but their performance on tasks that require speed in processing information starts to decline. This illustrates how throughout life, some dimensions or components of a dimension expand and others shrink, or how development is: O plastic O contextual O multidisciplinary multidirectional. QUESTION 3 Nellie, 3, bangs her head against the wall repeatedly throughout the day. How could Skinners concept of operart conditioning be applied to address this behavior? O Explore experiences from Nellie's early childhood and address them in therapy O Test Nellie to determine her current level of cognitive functioning O Investigate her psychosocial environment and eliminate stressors. Reward Nellie when she does not bang her head and punish the head-banging behavior Click Save and Submit to save and submit. Click Save All Answers to save all ansvers Save All Answer

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2) Correct Answer - Multidirectional

Multidirectional development means that in some areas the person may grow but in other areas some of the abilities may start declining. For example. Younger people have higher fluid intelligence but as they grow old, the fluid intelligence starts to decline but the crystallized intelligence increases.

3) Correct Answer - Reward Nellie when she does not bang her head and punish the head banging behavior.

B.F Skinner's operant conditioning believes in the law of effect, which states that when a behavior is followed up with positive consequence the behavior is more likely to occur and vice versa. So in operant conditioning, if a behavior is to be reinforced then it must be rewarded and when not, it must be punished.

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