Nolan has learned to drink a cup of coffee whenever he gets a tension headache because drinking coffee makes the pain of the headache go away. This is an example of
a. avoidance learning.
b. escape learning.
c. positive reinforcement.
d. classical conditioning.
B
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You have lost all feedback from your body about its physiological and behavioral activity. Which theory of emotion predicts the least amount of change in your ability to experience emotions??
a. ?James's peripheral b. ?Cannon's central c. ?Schachter-Singer d. ?Darwinian
Ebbinghaus investigated the time course of forgetting. In some of his studies, he forced himself to learn lists of nonsense syllables and then measured how long it took to relearn the same material after various delays. When he did this, Ebbinghaus found that:
a. the longer the delay, the less time it took to relearn the material b. the longer the delay, the more time it took to relearn the material c. no matter how long the delay was, it took just as long to relearn the material as it had taken to learn it the first time d. no matter how long the delay was, it always took longer to relearn the material than it took to learn it the first time
Joe wants to work on an ambulance squad and has been talking to emergency responders to find out what the job demands emotionally. Joe wonders if his personality can handle the kinds of situations that he would confront. Given what you have studied thus far about trait theory, which of the following is most likely to provide the degree of detail that could help him evaluate his suitability?
A. Allport's trait theory B. Cattell's factor analytic trait theory C. Eysenck's trait theory D. Costa and McCrae's five factor trait theory
Haier believes his research shows that higher intellectual performances are related to
a. greater brain efficiency. b. having larger corpus callosums. c. having "harder working" brains. d. all of these.