While watching television you see a magician perform a trick in which he appears to pass a long needle through his arm. A trickle of blood makes the illusion look especially realistic. Although rationally you know what you saw was an illusion,
you still react with fear as if it were your own arm being pierced. What term would a psychologist use to describe your reaction while watching this illusion?
a) contingency
b) insight learning
c) operant conditioning
d) vicarious consequences
D
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According to Erikson, adolescents' reliance on peers to help them define their identities and learn to form relationships is the link between the __________.
A. industry versus inferiority stage and ego-integrity versus despair stage B. identity versus identity confusion and intimacy versus isolation stages C. identity versus identity confusion and industry versus inferiority stages D. identity versus identity confusion and generativity versus stagnation stages
An advantage of the prototype theory is that it:
A. allows for quick recognition B. allows for exceptions C. explains babbling in infants D. allows deductive reasoning
Abraham Maslow believed that people who are unusually accurate in their perceptions have which of the following qualities?
a. a surrender to perceptual habits b. a reliance on evaluation and criticism c. immersion in past experiences d. a lack of self-consciousness
Which of the following statements regarding conditioned taste aversions is true?
A) Repeated pairings between the CS and UCS are needed in order to establish a conditioned taste aversion. B) Conditioned taste aversions can be induced in human beings, but not in lower animals. C) The delay between the CS and UCS in a conditioned tasted aversion can be as long as 6 or even 8 hours. D) Conditioned taste aversions tend to be remarkably general, where an entire type of food will be found distasteful even after only one specific food causes an illness.