A researcher conducted a study investigating the effects of pain on blood pressure. Initially, exposure to the pain resulted in increased blood pressure. Over time, however, blood pressure decreased and was no longer affected by the pain stimulus. What process has taken place as a result of the repeated exposure?
A. stimulus generalization
B. unconditioned stimulus
C. conditioned stimulus
D. habituation
E. stimulus acquisition
D. habituation
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A. assume personal responsibility B. choose a form of assistance C. notice the situation D. carry out the assistance
____ refers to an informal communication process in which one individual in the grapevine passes on information to a select group of people, with not everyone receiving the information
a. Single strand pattern b. Gossip c. Rumor d. Probability
This is a significance test used to determine whether a linear relationship exists between two variables measured on interval or ratio scales.
A. Tukey ad hoc B. Kendall's TAU-B C. Somer's d D. Pearson r
The word "generalize" is used in different, but related, ways by psychologists
When one says that "the laws of operant conditioning generalize," it means that (a) an organism conditioned in one situation will tend to make the same conditioned response in a similar situation (b) an organism conditioned in one situation will tend to make the same conditioned response in all situations, even completely dissimilar ones (c) the laws discovered by investigations with one organism will be relevant to the behavior of other organisms (d) the laws are "nonspecific," that is, they are too general to be useful in predicting behavior