Greg has not been making any progress toward his weight loss for the past six months. So, he and his wife draw up a formal agreement in which he states that he will meet weekly weight loss goals with the rewards for meeting these goals listed and the consequences he will incur if he does not meet his weekly goal. Greg and his wife are utilizing which of the following to help Greg lose weight?
a. the Premack principle
b. higher order conditioning
c. a behavioral contract
d. self-recording
C
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In the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, researchers from the U.S. Public Health Service ____
a. studied the progression of syphilis in a group of African American men without providing diagnosis or treatment b. poured bacteria on scrapes made on prisoners’ faces and arms to transmit syphilis for the purposes of study c. hired syphilis-infected prostitutes to sleep with soldiers to study the progression of the disease d. exposed prisoners, soldiers, and mental patients to syphilis and gonorrhea to test the effectiveness of penicillin
A child with antisocial behavior has an ____
a. overactive BAS and an overactive BIS b. underactive BAS and an underactive BIS c. underactive BAS and an overactive BIS d. overactive BAS and an underactive BIS
Marisa read a short vignette about a deer wandering through a forest in her English class. Later that day, she was working the puzzle in the newspaper, which required her to unscramble the letters TARIL to form a word. The first answer that pops into her head was the word trail. Marisa's experience illustrates the power of
a. chunking. b. priming. c. sensory memory. d. eidetic imagery.
People with damage to Wernicke's area can:
A) use correct syntax. B) produce meaningful language. C) understand sign language. D) understand the spoken word.