According to the concept of preparedness, which stimulus would make the most effective CS in a fear conditioning experiment?
A) gun
B) spider
C) flower
D) rabbit
Answer: B
Rationale: The term preparedness refers to the biological predisposition to rapidly learn a response to a
particular class of stimuli, such as dangerous animals like snakes and spiders. Although dangerous, we have not evolved a predisposition to fear guns because they are relatively new in our species history.
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McClelland believed that _________ are better at predicting broad behavior patterns over time, whereas _________ are better at predicting behavior in specific situations
a. self-attributed motives; implicit motives b. implicit motives; self-attributed motives c. latent motives; active motives d. active motives; latent motives
When an organism perceives a threat, the fight-or-flight response is due to
A. the arousal of the parasympathetic nervous system. B. the arousal of the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine system. C. excessive blood supply in the brain and the heart through blood vessels. D. the constriction of the pulmonary arteries in the heart.
An idea or concept, especially a complex one such as aggression or love, is:
A) a hypothesis B) a construct C) an operationalization D) an independent variable
The consistency of measurements across test occasions is known as __________
Fill in the blank with correct word.