A child shows fear when sitting in a dentist's chair, but does not become frightened when he is placed in the similar-looking barber's chair. Regarding the two chairs, this child is exhibiting
a. stimulus generalization.
b. a spontaneous recovery.
c. stimulus discrimination.
d. vicarious conditioning.
C
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, based his theories of conditioning on the results of experiments he conducted on a. humans. b. pigeons. c. rats
d. dogs.
A life satisfaction scale has both positively-worded items (e.g., "I feel as though life is good to me") and negatively-worded items (e.g., "I have nothing to look forward to.".). All items use a scale of 1 ("disagree strongly") to 5 ("agree strongly"). In order to analyze this data, it must undergo a(n) ____
a. item inversion b. item reversal c. scale reversal d. scale inversion
Rex is 3 months old. According to psychoanalyst Margaret Mahler, he views himself as
part of his mother. a small, helpless being. separate and distinct from his mother. part of a family.