If you wanted your best friend to spend more time talking about your interests, you might try smiling at her every time the conversation turned to your interests. In the framework of operant conditioning, your frowning would be:
a. positive reinforcement
b. positive punishment
c. negative reinforcement
d. negative punishment
A
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a) help adolescents to learn to establish intimacy with another individual b) create unnecessary drama c) reduce status and prestige for girls, but benefit the status of boys d) establish sexual or gender identity/preference
Systematic desensitization is used by behavior therapists to help clients suffering from which problem?
A. phobia B. anxiety C. shyness D. an undesirable behavior, such as a bad habit
Sigmund Freud provided a psychological explanation in which suicide is seen as
a. essentially a cognitive problem involving negative evaluations of the self b. a kind of behavior in which the child has learned to express aggression outward c. murder turned around 180 degrees d. all of these e. none of these
The position Searle (1980) argues against is that a properly programmed computer has a "mind" capable of understanding. This type of AI is referred to as:
A) "weak" B) "strong" C) "smart" D) "sometimes functional" E) "hard"