When Tasha was only nine years old, her two older brothers told her scary stories about vampires while she was in a dark room. As an adult, Tasha is still afraid of the dark. Based on classical conditioning principles, a behavioral therapist would suggest that the dark is acting as:
a. an unconditioned stimulus
b. an unconditioned response
c. a conditioned stimulus
d. a conditioned response
C
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A) 25 percent B) 50 percent C) 60 percent D) 75 percent
For Leibniz, sensory experience is important because it:
a. produces the ideas that occur in the mind. b. provides the pleasurable and painful experiences that guide our behavior. c. allows the potential ideas within us to become actualized. d. provides another way of knowing God.
Which of the following theories of language acquisition is considered to be the most comprehensive perspective?
A. the nativist perspective B. the interactionist perspective C. learning theory D. ethological theory
A key advantage of the fMRI technique is that the method can __________.
A. record the electrical activity of brain B. induce the secretion of neurotransmitters from neurons C. record more detailed information about the neural activity of particular brain regions D. localize receptors in brain