You have quit smoking and now want to keep from "falling back" into this old habit. To maintain the "new non-smoking you," you imagine someone offering you a cigarette, and you politely turning them down. This image is followed by imagining a pleasant, rewarding scene of yourself being told by the doctor that you are now so healthy that you should live to a ripe old age. You have just used the
technique known as
a. thought stopping.
b. covert sensitization.
c. desensitization.
d. covert reinforcement.
D
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The brain-imaging method that uses multiple X-rays to generate a picture of a horizontal slice of the brain is
a. an electroencephalograph. b. computerized tomography. c. stereotaxic instrumentation. d. EKG.
Reinforcement in operant conditioning is most effective when it is
a. response contingent. b. stimulus contingent. c. US-CS contingent. d. NS-CS contingent.
Which of the following is true of receptors?
a. The effects of hormones do not involve receptor activation. b. Neurotransmitters act on binding sites on receptors to exert their effects. c. Receptors are insensitive to drugs. d. Neuromodulators are ligands that come from outside the body. e. Hormone receptors are found in all tissues except brain.
When a participant in a research study becomes tired of participating in a study they are experiencing ______.
A. partial participation B. complete participation C. interval participation D. participant fatigue