At the political convention, the people are crowded together
on the convention floor. Although the large group is a mixture of different gender, ages, and races with many different outfits, you easily group these people together based on the sign being held up in the middle of each group that bears their state's name. Your grouping was the result of which perceptual principle?
a. contiguity
b. common region
c. figure-ground
d. continuation
ANSWER: b
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a. stimulus control. b. participant modeling. c. shaping. d. prompting.
In behavior modification, the discriminative stimulus and other stimuli that are present during a training situation are referred to as ____________ stimuli
a. target b. generalized c. criterion d. training
Joshua is transferred to an office located on the tenth floor of a building. The problem is that he fears heights so much that he never goes above the third floor in any building
His therapist teaches him to relax deeply while imagining himself looking out over a balcony. As therapy progresses, Joshua imagines himself on higher and higher floors. This technique is called: a. systematic desensitization. b. rational-emotive behavioral therapy. c. flooding. d. transference.
A brain-imaging method using magnetic fields to measure the release of energy from water in biological tissues is called _____
A) electroencephalography (EEG) B) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) C) positron emission tomography (PET) D) computed tomography (CT)