The activation of behavior to maintain the body at an optimum level is called:
a. arousal
b. optimum hypothesis
c. homeostasis
d. activation theory
c
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a. profound disability b. severe disability c. moderate disability d. mild disability e. non-functional disability
A teacher obtains a sample of children from a fifth grade classroom by randomly selecting the third, fifth, and eighth rows and taking all the students in those rows. This is an example of ____ sampling
a. simple random b. systematic c. cluster d. stratified
Markus moved into an apartment on a busy city intersection. Initially, the noise from the traffic kept him awake. After living in his apartment for a few weeks, however, the noise no longer bothered him and he slept throughout the night. This example demonstrates the behavioural process of:
A) classical conditioning. B) sensitization. C) operant conditioning. D) habituation.
Research on the genetic and neural foundations of empathy has indicated that empathy has ______.
A. virtually no degree of heritability B. a small degree of heritability C. a moderate degree of heritability D. a substantial degree of heritability