When the CS is repeatedly presented in the absence of the UCS (food, in this case), the CR will "die out" in a process called
a. CR fading
b. extinction
c. habituation
d. generalization fading
e. discriminatory fading
b. extinction
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Turiel (2008) collected observations of children at school in which they violated moral rules or social conventional rules. Later the same day, he asked each child what to explain whether something was a violation or not. A few weeks later the same children were given hypothetical stories involving very similar situations as what had happened at school. In their responses to these stories,
children a. explained moral violations but not violations of social conventions. b. explained violations of social conventions but not moral violations. c. engaged in more sophisticated reasoning about the hypothetical stories than about the real-life incidents. d. were able in both real-life and hypothetical scenarios to reason appropriately about both moral and social conventional issues.
In the lunchroom, George is describing an experience he had last week. He said that he suddenly felt short of breath, a pounding heart, dizziness, and a sense of losing control. George has confided in you that he now worries quite a bit that the attacks will happen again and he feels a lot of stress about this possibility. George should seek help, since his symptoms sound very much like:
A. obsessive-compulsive disorder B. somatization disorder C. generalized anxiety disorder D. panic disorder
If we compare either different species or different ages, what trend emerges?
a. The less total sleep, the higher the percentage of REM sleep b. The more total sleep, the higher the percentage of REM sleep c. The more activity during wakefulness, the higher the percentage of REM sleep d. The more activity during wakefulness, the lower the percentage of REM sleep
At one time, Abraham Lincoln, William James, news anchor Mike Wallace, and author J.K. Rowling each suffered from a mental disorder. Consequently, their examples contradict the myth that ____
a. mentally disordered people must have had bad parents b. mental illness makes a person useless c. mentally disturbed people must have inherited their disorders d. mentally disordered people only need to exercise willpower to recover