Two-year-old Dennis is outside with his mother when he begins pulling the dog's ears. When he refuses to stop, his mother picks Dennis up and carries him back into the house and away from their dog. Dennis is experiencing
a. shaping.
b. stimulus control.
c. reciprocal inhibition.
d. time out.
D
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a. ?the distinction between the physical world and one's experience of it b. ?the need for objectivity in psychology c. ?the role of positivism in the new science of psychology d. ?Descartes's dualism e. ?the difference between simple ideas and complex ideas
Franz Gall made several assertions about brain areas and their functioning. However, Gall did not assume that ____
a. ?brain areas were organized into networks that control specific functions b. ?particular brain areas controlled particular aspects of mental life c. ?brain areas got bigger as people used them d. ?each brain area was associated with a certain personality trait
An IRB categorizes research as that involving no risk, minimal risk, or greater-than-minimal risk.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which is the BEST example of the idiographic approach?
A. A detailed study of one case B. A study of the most effective treatment for phobias C. A review of all of a clinician's phobic patient cases D. A study of the relative frequency of horse and rat phobias among adults