A tennis coach works with players to improve the accuracy of their backhand stroke with successive attempts to produce more hits on target each week of the season. The coach is using a form of conditioning known as
A. stimulus generalization.
B. shaping.
C. punishment.
D. discrimination.
B
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The basic assumption of behavior therapy is that
A) faulty patterns of thinking are producing the current difficulties. B) adaptive and maladaptive behaviors are learned. C) every family has unspoken rules of interaction and communication that have contributed to the current difficulties. D) the therapist must be nondirective and provide the client with unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding.
Research indicates that, at least in the U.S., the tendency toward self-presentation is more common ____ while the tendency toward modesty is stronger ____
a. in new relationships and acquaintanceships; in long-term relationships b. in long-term relationships; in new relationships and acquaintanceships c. among men; among women d. among women; among men
Bonzo thinks there is some way to memorize the names of animals seen at the zoo, but he can't think of it. Bonzo has a(n) ____ strategy deficiency
a. production b. utilization c. infantile amnesia d. attention-deficit hyperactivity
Professor Schimke is giving a lecture on the somatosensory system. He tells the class that sensory information travels from the thalamus to the _____.
A. prefrontal lobe B. amygdala C. hypothalamus D. parietal lobe