The use of classical or operant conditioning to directly alter human responses is known as _________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
behavior modification
applied behavior analysis
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Gloria is a 17-year-old girl who weighs 82 pounds and is gaunt and frail. Although she fears food and eating, she focuses on food by talking about it, collecting cookbooks, and cooking huge meals for others. Whenever she looks at herself in the mirror, she thinks she is disgustingly fat. Which disorder is Gloria suffering from?
A. anorexia nervosa B. binge eating C. bipolar disorder D. bulimia
Davis was born deaf to deaf parents who signed to him at an early age. How would this be most likely to affect his acquisition of a theory of mind?
a. He would show slightly slower development than that of a sensory-normal child. b. He would show a similar development as that of a Down syndrome child. c. He would show a similar development as that of an autistic child. d. He would show similar development to that of a sensory-normal child.
Research on the biology of memory involving the visual cortex of rats reared in stimulating environments and the stimulation of certain synapses in sea snails, such as Aplysia, suggests that
a. the engram is generalized throughout the entire cortex. b. myelination is not critical to memory formation in the brain. c. electrical circuits in the brain correspond to memory traces. d. memories may have neural correlates at specific sites.
A researcher separates the participants into two groups. Group A receives an active medication, and Group B receives an empty capsule that looks and feels like the real medication. Group B is the
A. treatment group. B. analog group. C. control group. D. experimental group.