With respect to emotion, which of the following terms is correctly matched with a definition?
a) blunted affect – the failure to experience pleasurable feelings
b) anhedonia – uncontrollable emotional episodes that do not fit the situation
c) emotional lability – the failure to feel or display much emotion
d) hyperarousal – unwarranted activation of the fight-or-flight response
ANS: D
You might also like to view...
What disorder is characterized by the behavioral problems of inattention and excessive activity and can be treated with Ritalin?
A. conduct disorder B. learning disability disorder C. attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder D. autism
If George and his wife wish to increase the chances of becoming pregnant, they should know that George's sperm can survive about how long following ejaculation?
a. 2-3 hours b. 6-12 hours c. 24-36 hours d. 5 days
The type of learning that is based on association of two or more stimuli is called ________
A) social learning B) instrumental conditioning C) positive learning D) classical conditioning E) association learning
The transformation of scores into z-scores only changes the ______, it does not change the shape of the distribution .
a. level of dispersion b. scale of the variable c. level of significance d. scale of probability density