A genetically programmed bit of behavior that occurs when circumstances are appropriate and that require no learning is called:

a. habit
b. instinct
c. imprinting
d. inhabitation


b

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a. due to a parasympathetic rebound in reasonably healthy people. b. due to the sympathetic effect in older persons or those with heart problems. c. when the blood pressure is lowered too much. d. in all of these situations.

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Hearing-impaired children who learn to use sign language beginning early in life show what level of sequence, timing, and patterns of errors compared to those that hearing children show?

a. significantly less c. approximately the same b. slightly less d. slightly more

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At the common core of most psychological theories is the assumption of __________, the idea that all events are the result of specific causal factors

FIll in the blank with correct word.

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In Pavlov's terminology, the tuning-fork tone

(a) changed from unconditioned stimulus to neutral stimulus (b) changed from conditioned stimulus to neutral stimulus (c) changed from neutral stimulus to conditioned stimulus (d) had no appreciable effect

Psychology