Regarding suppression and repression, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Some psychologists have questioned whether repression exists.
b. When people experience painful emotional events, they avoid all thoughts associated with these events, which tends to keep cues out of mind that could trigger a painful memory.
c. Active suppression of the memory may become true repression.
d. Repression is the conscious effort to put something out of mind or to keep it from awareness.
D
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According to operant conditioning, if a behavior is no longer followed by a reinforcer, the frequency of the behavior will:
A. become more intense B. remain unchanged C. increase D. decrease
Temporal summation most likely occurs with ____
a. infrequent, subthreshold excitation b. rapid succession of stimuli that each exceed threshold c. infrequent, inhibitory stimuli d. rapid succession of subthreshold excitation
Psychologists attempt to understand behavior and mental processes by ____
a. ?using the scientific method b. ?thinking deeply about the reasons for our behavior c. ?using common sense to understand why we do what we do d. ?studying the behavior of people with mental illnesses
The variable that the experimenter manipulates is called the _________
a. independent variable c. constant variable b. dependent variable d. experimental variable