A rat learns to press a bar to turn off an electric shock. This is an example of
a. escape learning.
b. avoidance learning.
c. an unconditioned response.
d. positive reinforcement.
A
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a. people act in an altruistic (charitable) way toward others b. people act in a self-interested way c. people look to other people (rather than the environment) for information d. people have more respect for other people than they do for themselves
A research method that tests hypotheses and allows researchers to make conclusions about causality is called a(n) ____
a. case study b. experiment c. descriptive method d. correlational study
Geoff is reading the science section of the newspaper. He should be most skeptical of which of the following headlines?
A) Feeling bad? Angry? Dream your problems away B) Gender differences in dream content found again C) Researcher claims dreaming not limited to deep sleep D) Sight restored in dreams for man blinded in recent accident
What did Hippocrates view as the determinant of a person's characteristics?
a) the soul b) body type c) skull bumps d) bodily humors