According to drive reduction theory, what occurs each time a behavior results in drive reduction?
A. Tension is increased.
B. Stability is reduced.
C. Tension is reduced.
D. Drives are increased.
Answer: C
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a. the average male has a higher salary than the average female. b. among a group of college graduates, women would be more likely to go into teaching, whereas men would be more likely to go into engineering. c. within a group of workers, the males would receive higher ratings than the females. d. even when men and women work at the same job, they tend to socialize with individuals of their own gender.
Monitoring one's thoughts, setting specific goals, learning to reinforce oneself, and substituting positive for negative thoughts are characteristic of:
A. psychoanalysis B. short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy C. cognitive-behavior therapy D. systematic desensitization
In an effort to study the acquisition of speech, Dr. Verball reinforces an infant every time it makes a sound. Given this description, Dr. Verball's research method would best be described as a(n) _____ task
a. habituation b. preferential hearing c. evoked potentials d. operant conditioning
In the "War of the Ghosts" experiment, participants' reproductions contained inaccuracies based on
A. narrative rehearsal. B. source misattributions. C. cultural expectations. D. shallow processing.