When a painful or aversive stimulus is paired with unwanted desires, to change a habit by making it less desirable, this is called
a. counter conditioning. c. flooding.
b. aversive conditioning. d. extinction.
B
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Gina is recalling the time last year that she hiked up a big hill in the rain with a group of her friends. This memory would be best described as a(n) ____ memory
a. episodic b. vigilance c. semantic d. implicit
Andy was in a severe automobile accident. Now he has a persistent unrealistic fear of any type of transportation. This is an example of
a. a phobia. b. stimulus discrimination. c. vicarious operant conditioning. d. vicarious classical conditioning.
Statements using specific, concrete descriptions allow us to avoid misinterpretation of our intended meaning
a. True b. False
Tom and Pat are subjects in an experiment on problem-solving. They are each placed in separate rooms and asked to generate solutions to the problem of global warming. Tom is given an hour to generate solutions, while Pat is only given 20 minutes. Which of the following is most likely to occur?
A. Tom will have generated a more diverse array of possible solutions. B. Pat will have generated a more diverse array of possible solutions. C. Tom will have generated more heuristics relevant to solving the problem. D. Pat will have generated more heuristics relevant to solving the problem.