Experience with unavoidable negative stimuli can lead to a particular deficit in avoidance learning called ________, in which an organism, exposed to uncontrollable aversive stimuli, learns that it has no control over negative outcomes.
A. instinctive drift
B. learned generalization
C. learned helplessness
D. extinction
Answer: C
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a. "Women are getting too many benefits, due to affirmative action.". b. "Because women have experienced so much discrimination in the past, they deserve special privileges now.". c. "On a crowded bus, a man should offer his seat to a woman.". d. "Men and women are very different from each other.".
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A. Emotionality B. Grandiosity C. Impulsivity D. Vanity
____ tends to make people more aware of positive, culturally desirable standards and tends to make them try harder to behave in positive, culturally desirable ways
a. Basking in reflected glory b. The over-justification effect c. The self-reference effect d. Self-awareness
Teens watch approximately how many minutes of advertisements for each hour of television?
A) 3 B) 8 C) 14 D) 23