A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is ________ and thus ________ the probability of a response
a. removed; increases
b. presented; decreases
c. removed; decreases
d. presented; increases
a
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Polina participated in a short-term memory experiment. The experimenter read aloud a list of twenty objects, and Polina had to mentally rate how effective each object would be if she was stranded on a deserted island. The experimenter then asked her to count backward by threes from one hundred. This task, known as __________, ensures Polina does not rehearse the information to keep it in her short-term memory.
A. motivated forgetting B. chunking C. the Brown-Peterson distractor technique D. the relearning method
Psychiatrists generally prefer ECT to either drugs or psychotherapy
a. True b. False
Peer's influence at school and in the neighborhood
A) is always detrimental to adolescents' scholastic achievement. B) is always going to boost adolescents' scholastic achievement. C) may boost or lower adolescents' scholastic achievement, depending on the values of the group. D) is less important to scholastic achievement than parents' influence.
Whose psychotic episode provided a major stimulus for the movement toward humane treatment of the mentally ill?
a) King George III b) Baruch Spinoza c) Franz Joseph Gall d) William Shakespeare