In many TV situation comedies, a woman will withhold sex from her husband until he stops an annoying behavior. It's a classic storytelling device. It's also an example of

a. negative punishment using a primary reinforcer
b. positive reinforcement using a secondary reinforcer
c. positive punishment using a secondary reinforcer
d. negative reinforcement using a primary reinforcer


Ans: a. negative punishment using a primary reinforcer. The wife is removing a pleasant stimulus (sex) to encourage a decrease in the husband's annoying behavior. Because sex is something people are born to like, it is a primary reinforcer.

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The term neuraxis refers to

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The Yerkes-Dodson law (1908), shows that performance increases with arousal up to a point, but beyond that, performance decreases with increasing arousal. What type of correlation is this?

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