Tim wants to study aggression in children on a school playground. He decides to look for hitting, kicking, and biting. In this design, hitting, kicking, and biting can be considered as
a. aggressive categories.
b. sampled categories.
c. person categories.
d. behavioral categories.
d
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The amygdala is a brain area long associated with
a. fearful responses. b. delusions and hallucinations. c. anxiety and panic. d. obsessions.
In operant conditioning, extinction occurs because:
A. of disinterest B. reinforcement no longer follows the behavior C. the task is difficult D. of delay of reinforcement
Which of the following is used in a behavioral contract to determine whether the target behavior occurred or did not occur?
a. subjective evidence b. objective evidence c. verbal reports by the contractee d. all of these
If people are told prior to hypnosis that hypnosis causes rigidity of the arms, they are likely to show rigidity while hypnotized, even if rigidity is not part of any hypnotic suggestion. This supports the view that hypnosis is:
a. a dissociation of consciousness b. due to an increase in alpha wave activity c. a kind of social role-playing d. an acetylcholine (ACh) imbalance