Helen has overcome her fear of toy snakes. However, on one occasion her fear returned when she found a toy snake in the cushions of her couch. Such a reaction is called
a. spontaneous recovery.
b. higher-order conditioning.
c. extinction.
d. stimulus generalization.
a
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Basing the estimated probability of an event on the ease with which instances come to mind is called the
a. law of small numbers. b. representativeness heuristic. c. conjunction fallacy. d. availability heuristic.
Compared to untreated infants with sleep problems, infants treated with extinction
a. develop less secure relationships. b. are less trusting of their caregivers. c. display fewer negative emotions. d. perform less anti-social b ehavior.
Pavlov described the pattern of excitation and inhibition that characterized the brain at any given moment with the term _____.
a. spontaneous stimulation b. spontaneous response c. cortical mosaic d. antecedent stimulation
A person who does not have hallucinations and whose persecutory delusions are about experiences that could occur in real life would most likely be diagnosed with the delusional disorder known as __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word