Ali's parents have successfully conditioned him to cause the extinction of tantrums, but Ali suddenly throws a tantrum when his mother refuses to buy him a toy at the store. In this example, the sudden return of a behavior is known as:
A. stimulus generalization.
B. classical conditioning.
C. stimulus discrimination.
D. spontaneous recovery.
Answer: D
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a. high on surgency/extraversion and low on negative affect. b. low on surgency/extraversion and high on negative affect. c. high on surgency/extraversion and high on negative affect. d. low on surgency/extraversion and low on negative affect.
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a. deception b. self-fulfilling prophecies c. the placebo effect d. the correlation/causation problem
Some women emit a fluid during orgasm. The fluid comes from the
a. urethra b. vagina c. seminal vesicles d. Fallopian tubes
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A) ?adrenal glands B) ?hypothalamus C) ?corpus callosum D) ?amygdala