Spontaneous recovery

What will be an ideal response?


the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response

Psychology

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Talia has found that whenever the telephone rings, she feels an overwhelming sense of panic that can immobilize her for several hours. In this example, the overwhelming panic that Talia experiences would most likely be considered:

a. statistically deviant and psychologically abnormal b. statistically deviant but psychologically normal c. culturally deviant and psychologically abnormal d. culturally deviant but psychologically normal

Psychology

In predicting which children are the most likely to become alcoholics, the more consistent procedure would be to:

a. Look for a change in the P3 dip of the evoked potential b. Examine the effects of the GABAB receptor c. Look for decreased high frequency EEG patterns d. Study personality and social factors that would put children at risk

Psychology

Which of the following would be a good strategy for parents to adopt in helping

their chronically ill child deal with his or her disability? a. communicate honestly and openly with him or her b. minimize peer contacts in order to protect him or her from teasing c. provide a lot of extra nurturing and emotional support, as compared with his or her well siblings d. discuss only day-to-day care, but not feelings about the illness as it would be too upsetting for the child e. overindulge the child, since she or he misses out on so many of the "normal" parts of growing up

Psychology

Ben is trying to explain why his four-year-old son, Henry, cannot recall what happened at a concert they attended two years ago. Ben says, "Henry kind of recalls being at some event with a lot of people and singing, but he has no recollection for any details of the concert." Ben's description best matches the _____ theory of childhood amnesia.

A. fuzzy-trace B. working memory capacity C. surfactant D. constraint-seeking

Psychology