A stimulus presented to a person or animal that decreases the probability of a particular response is known as __________.
A. punishment
B. discrimination
C. negative reinforcement
D. negative expectation
Answer: A
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a. 0. b. less than 0.6. c. approximately 0.6. d. greater than 0.6.
The observation that children diagnosed with ASD appear obsessed with how things work rather than how people work is an example of what two concepts?
a. obsession with movement; restricted interests b. physical obsession; social obsession c. mechanical savant; social deficits d. folk physics; folk psychology
People with very creative lifestyles may be emotionally stable, while people who exhibit overly rigid conventional behavior may have pychopathology. In each of these cases, misdiagnosis would result if one used which definition of abnormality?
a. social nonconformity b. statistical abnormality c. cultural abnormality d. subjective discomfort
The person who helped set up the Abu Ghraib prison and had also served as head of the Texas, New Mexico, and Utah prison systems was:
A. Donald Vodicka. B. Andy Collins. C. Farhad Monem. D. Lane McCotter.