Many students dread public speaking so they do not give oral presentations or take speech classes. This is an example of __________

a) avoidance learning.
b) learned helplessness.
c) extinction learning.
d) generalized learning.


a

Psychology

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According to the behaviorists, early childhood is a time of urgent drives, crushing frustrations, and

a. powerful psychosexual urges and fixations. b. incongruence and conditions of worth. c. the child's identification with the same-sex parent in order to resolve the conflicts of the phallic stage. d. powerful punishments and rewards, including social reinforcement.

Psychology

Unhealthy and/or risky behaviors that impact directly on the cardiovascular system may contribute to

A. panic disorder. B. somatic symptom disorders. C. strokes, high blood pressure, and coronary heart disease. D. reduced immunity to autoimmune diseases.

Psychology

On the Kinsey continuum, a person who has a score of 4 is:

A) exclusively homosexual. B) exclusively heterosexual. C) equally heterosexual and homosexual. D) mostly homosexual and occasionally heterosexual.

Psychology

The birth process involves ___________ stages, the final culminating with the expulsion of the umbilical cord and the placenta

a. two c. four b. three d. five

Psychology