Psychology review: 20. Which answer choice best describes the concept of shaping?
A. Reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.
B. Parents forcing their own beliefs on their children.
C. The method of forcing people to slowly adapt their ideas and thoughts to a person similar to them.
D. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.

According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with human subjects? a researcher conducts a comparison of the comments made in a publicly available blog and the blogger's comments on a similar topic in a weekly magazine. undergraduate students in a field methods class are assigned a research question and asked to interview another classmate, to be followed by a class discussion on interview techniques. a cognitive psychologist enrolls undergraduate students for a computer-based study about the effect of mood on problem-solving behaviors. a researcher sets up a meeting with the superintendent of a large and diverse public school system to get data about the ethnic composition of the school system and the number of students receiving free lunches.