According to the principles of operant conditioning, when reinforcement for a behavior is stopped, ____
a. ?the person will find another source of reinforcement
b. ?the behavior will also stop eventually
c. ?someone else will begin to reinforce the behavior
d. ?someone else will begin to punish the behavior
ANSWER:
b
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a. openly express unacceptable impulses. b. use daydreams or substitute activities to discharge their unconscious conflicts and motives. c. engage in exaggerated behaviors that are the opposite of their true feelings. d. justify their behavior by giving rational reasons for it.
You walk past Pizza Hut and salivate in response to the aroma of freshly baked pizzas. What is this the result of?
a. classical conditioning c. spontaneous recovery b. operant conditioning d. instrumental conditioning
When did the "just desserts" model regain favor in the United States?
A. 1920s-30s B. 1940s-50s C. 1960s-70s D. 1970s-80s
According to the text, which of these statements is false?
(a) Being choosy about who you mate with should increase fitness if you're male. (b) For a man, there is no guarantee that his sexual partner's offspring carry his genes. (c) The claim that some characteristic or behavior has a genetic basis does not mean that that characteristic or behavior is totally unaffected by environmental factors. (d) Over time, those females who carried genes that predisposed them toward being more jealous of emotional infidelity than sexual infidelity passed along more of their genes to subsequent generations.