It's midnight, and you are alone in your room studying. You hear a loud crash outside your room, and your whole body reacts instantly and furiously. The system that produces these reactions is the ________ system
a) central nervous
b) sympathetic nervous
c) parasympathetic nervous
d) limbic
ANS: B, The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for reacting to stressful events and bodily arousal.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Dr. Garza says to a client with anxiety disorders, "It is your unrealistic beliefs and perfectionistic values that cause you to be so anxious, not the events of your life." Dr. Garza probably supports the assumptions of __________ therapy.
A. humanistic B. psychodynamic C. rational emotive behavior D. systematic desensitization
Four-month-old Robert is described as having a difficult temperament. His father is insensitive, coercive, and also difficult in temperament. What can we predict Robert's developmental outcome will be?
A. Robert will most likely have behavioral problems and adjustment difficulties that worsen with age, even into early adolescence. B. Robert will become less extreme in his behavioral tendencies because babies with difficult temperaments become less extreme with age. C. Babies with difficult temperaments tend to be unpredictable, so we cannot accurately predict what Robert will be like as he ages. D. Robert will be more likely to get ill as he gets older because difficult temperaments wear down a person's immune system.
List and briefly explain three types of learning derived from the behavioral perspective
What will be an ideal response?