One important difference between organizing effects and activating effects of hormones is that activating effects ____
a. are shorter-term
b. take place mostly during an early sensitive period
c. cause the pituitary gland to release another hormone
d. control only the peripheral nervous system
a
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An environmental risk factor closely related to mood disorders is negative thought patterns, or
a. automatic thoughts. b. hopefulness theory. c. cognitive distortions. d. delusions.
You are trying to teach your nephew how to write his name, Noah, and you have learned from your psychology class that positive reinforcement should help you to teach Noah this new behavior. Since Noah is just learning to write you decide to reward him at first for being able to write an N. Once he has learned this, you reward him after he writes an O. You continue teaching Noah this way until he
is able to write his entire name neatly. According to Skinner you are using what procedure to teach Noah? A. shaping B. classical conditioning C. extinction D. habituation E. intermittent reinforcement
Adolescents who __________ are advanced in moral reasoning
A) report fewer close friendships B) more often participate in conversations with their friends C) have more like-minded friends D) have fewer cross-race and cross-gender friendships
Bart coped with flunking his midterm by telling everyone he was positive his professor's poor teaching was the reason Bart got such a bad grade. This is an example of
A) ?adaptive behavior. B) ?positive coping. C) ?how coping allowed him to handle the situation effectively. D) ?an unhealthy coping response.