Another term for willpower is __________
a. self-control
b. self-esteem
c. self-modeling
d. self-actualization
Answer: A: self-control
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Describe the limitations to behavior genetics studies. How do these limitations impact the types of conclusions that we can draw from behavior genetics studies?
What will be an ideal response?
A 1954 ruling by a Washington D.C. federal court in Durham v. United States broadened the insanity defense to say that an accused is not criminally responsible if his or her unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect. This came to be known a
a. mental illness b. D.C. c. Durham d. product
Mrs. Parker's first grade class has been just calling out Mrs. Parker's name to get her attention. Mrs. Parker has decided that she will only call on the students who quietly raise their hands to get her attention, while she will not attend to those students who loudly call out her name. Eventually, the students will stop loudly calling out her name because of the behavioral principle of
a. shaping. b. extinction. c. aversive conditioning. d. desensitization.
Six-month-old infants were habituated to the following four arrows: . Subsequently, when the same infants were present with the following arrow: , they ___
a. exhibited renewed interest in the new stimulus b. treated the new stimulus as if it were a familiar stimulus c. focused their attention on the tip of the arrow d. none of the above