If you get praised by your parents for making A's in your college courses, the grades are
a. an example of stimulus control.
b. an example of time out.
c. an example of positive reinforcement.
d. situationally controlled.
C
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Richard remembers exactly where he was when he learned that a close relative had died. His vivid memory for this event is an example of
A. context-dependent retrieval. B. a flashbulb memory. C. source monitoring. D. memory reconstruction.
Discrimination or prejudice on the basis of age is called
a. geriatrics. b. chronological prejudice. c. ageism. d. senility.
Which of the following is an example of classical conditioning?
A. A child learns to blink her eyes to the sound of a bell because the ringing of the bell has been followed by a puff of air to the eye. B. A pigeon learns to peck at a disk in a Skinner box to get food. C. Rich saw that when Donna banged her fist against a particular vending machine, she got a free soft drink, so now he bangs his fist against that machine when he wants a free soft drink. D. A monkey learns to escape from a cage.
________ refers to heredity and __________ refers to environmental influences.
A. Nature; nurture B. Cognition; emotion C. Nurture; behavioral genetics D. Cross-sectional; longitudinal