The fact that dirt and contamination were threats to our ancestors suggests
A) that obsessive-compulsive disorder probably exists in many species, not just humans.
B) that preparedness theory may help explain obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) that obsessive-compulsive disorder is one of the oldest disorders in existence.
D) that fear of these things is rational.
B
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Terrell has been refusing to go to school. Bronfenbrenner suggests that the problem has been aggravated by poor communication between the school and Terrell's parents. This illustrates the operation of the
a. chronosystem. b. exosystem. c. macrosystem. d. mesosystem.
A threat to internal validity in which extreme scores, upon retesting, tend to be less extreme is called a. a time-series confound
b. a single-group effect. c. regression to the mean. d. none of the options is correct
According to the information-processing perspective, the child exerts voluntary control most directly over
a. the sensory store. b. the short-term store. c. the environmental input. d. executive function.
When the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response will "die out" in a process called ______________
a) CR fading b) extinction c) habituation d) generalization fading