Graham is a 5-year-old who has a conditioned fear of furry and hairy things. He is fond of a snack of milk and chocolate cookies, and associates pleasant feelings with it
Psychologists pair a cat with the snack that Graham enjoys until his fear of the cat goes away. This is an example of ________.
a. counterconditioning
b. stimulus discrimination
c. instinctive drift
d. spontaneous recovery
Answer: a
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a. Intuitively understanding someone's emotional condition based on nonverbal signals b. A behavioral influence based on something that did not reach any of your sense organs c. A behavioral influence based on something you didn't perceive consciously d. Incorrectly reporting the presence of a stimulus that was actually absent
The t distribution is known as "Student's t" because it was created by an undergraduate student in mathematics at Stanford University.
a. true b. false
The flow of sensory data from the sensory receptors to the brain is called "_____ processing."
- bottom-up - top-down - conceptually driven - perceptually driven
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A) Zyban B) Elavil C) Paxil D) Zoloft