When athletes experience intense concentration and feelings of unusual power or control during a performance, it is referred to as "flow," or
a. hypervigilance.
b. performance imagery.
c. peak cardiovascular output.
d. peak performance.
d
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Social-cognitive theory differs from Skinner's approach in giving more weight to
a. secondary reinforcers. b. respondent conditioning. c. cognitive processes. d. genetic factors.
Heuristics are relevant when we try to answer a reasoning problem because
a. we carefully assess the logic behind each reasoning problem, rather than responding quickly. b. we often answer a reasoning problem by using a heuristic that a conclusion is a "good bet," even if it is not always true. c. we are especially accurate on reasoning problems that involve "affirming the consequent." d. we are significantly more accurate if we try decision-making strategies in trying to solve reasoning problems.
A patient arrives in your office with a severe fear of spiders. You treat this patient by gradually introducing her to snake images, snake toys, and eventually live snakes in order to show her that nothing bad happened in the presence of these objects. You are using the therapeutic technique called
a. Cognitive therapy b. Systematic desensitization c. Operant conditioning d. Multidimensional therapy
Which of the following are classified as chemical senses?
a. smell and taste c. smell and vestibular sense b. smell and olfactory sense d. taste and kinesthesis