John Watson offered a live, white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the __________ in his study
a) discriminative stimulus
b) counterconditioning stimulus
c) conditioned stimulus
d) unconditioned stimulus
ANS: C, The child was conditioned to respond to this stimulus with fear, even though he was not originally afraid of the rat.
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a. Experiment b. Reversal study c. Multiple baseline study d. Meta-analytic study
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A) an implicit social norm B) selective exposure C) social facilitation D) a stereotype
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a. the reporting of behavior by a close relative of the participant. b. actual behavior rather than self-reports of behavior. c. self-reporting of behavior. d. less-involved data analysis.