Helping people refrain from drinking by pairing alcohol with a stimulus such as electrical shock is an example of
a) modeling.
b) covert sensitization.
c) operant conditioning.
d) aversive conditioning.
d
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Professor Cook is lecturing on the importance of the myelin sheath. He told that class that _____.
A. myelin is the only structure that can prevent action potentials from traveling the wrong direction. B. the fatty nature of the myelin speeds up the action potential down the length of the axon C. the fatty nature of myelin provide storage for key nutrients for the neuron D. myelin increases the strength of the action potential
Unintended changes in subjects' behavior due to cues inadvertently given by the experimenter in an experimental study are called:
a. conformation biases. b. experimenter effects. c. volunteer biases. d. reifications.
Edwin Megargee's (1969) study of manifestations of dominance found that:
A. dominant women expressed their dominance in a different manner than men in a mixed-gender condition. B. dominant men became submissive under certain experimental conditions. C. there were no significant differences in dominance between men and women. D. women did not want to be followers as they generally lacked mechanical ability.
Applied research is used to address theoretical questions regarding the mechanisms and processes of behavior.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)