John and Sam get into a fistfight in the middle of a gun shop. The presence of the guns would be an example of
A) modeling.
B) provocative objects.
C) aggressive stimuli.
D) the mere exposure effect.
E) agitating stimuli.
C) aggressive stimuli.
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Which of the following is an accurate statement?
a. ?Epigenetic tags continue to accumulate in response to ongoing experience throughout the life span. b. ?Epigenetic tags are formed in the early life span, but deteriorate in old age. c. ?Epigenetic tags replace internal signals in driving physical growth after birth. d. ?Epigenetic tags only form during prenatal development due to external influences such as the mother’s diet.
The advantages of token economies include which of the following?
a. giving clients an incentive to change b. holding individuals responsible for maladaptive habits and actions c. returning many "hopelessly" intellectually disabled, mentally ill, or delinquent individuals to productive lives d. doing all of these
You decide that you are going to condition your dog to salivate to the sound of a metronome. You sound the metronome and then several minutes later you give the dog a biscuit. You do this several times but no conditioning seems to occur
This is probably because a. the metronome was not a distinctive sound. b. the metronome should have been sounded after the animal ate the biscuit. c. you should have had an even longer interval between the metronome and the biscuit. d. the biscuit was given too long after the sound of the metronome. e. the metronome was not loud enough to be heard by the dog.
In a study on how marijuana affects creativity, the people who took the marijuana performed no more creatively than those who took a placebo. Both groups performed more creatively than a group that received no drugs at all
What conclusions can best be drawn from these findings? a. The group receiving the placebo was more creative to begin with than the group receiving the marijuana. b. The creative effects of marijuana are probably due to people's beliefs that it will increase their creativity. c. Neither marijuana nor a placebo seems to have any effect on creativity. d. Marijuana enhances creativity.