A child has learned to avoid a furry, black cat of her neighbor's. However, she still plays with her grandmother's short-haired gray tabby cat. Her response demonstrates
a. negative transfer.
b. extinction.
c. stimulus discrimination.
d. successive approximation.
C
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As defined by Freud, the term thanatos refers to ____
a. suicidal thinking b. a destructive, death instinct c. any same-sex competitive activity d. an aggressive personality type
The most prevalent theme in Freud's dreams was ambition
a. True b. False
A heuristic is
a. a step-by-step process for solving a problem. b. a sudden realization of the correct solution to a problem. c. the most common type of logical concept. d. a mental shortcut for solving a problem. e. a standard used to compare an individual's performance on a test with the performance of others.
The first significant supporting evidence for a biological cause of a mental disorder was the 19th century discovery that the psychotic disorder called general paresis was caused by the same bacterial microorganism that causes a. malaria
b. Alzheimer's disease. c. syphilis. d. The common cold.