Your dog barks every time a stranger's car pulls into the driveway, but not when you come home. Reacting to your car differently is a sign of _______
a. discrimination
b. generalization
c. spontaneous recovery
d. acquisition
Answer: A
Rationale: This occurs when an organism learns to respond to one original stimulus but not to new stimuli that may be similar to the original stimulus.
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a. negative cognitive capacity. b. learned helplessness. c. self-fulfilling prophecy. d. theory of mind.
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a. balancing. b. intelligence. c. equilibrium. d. consciousness.
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A. the user's age. B. whether the user distorts reality. C. whether the user is aware of the defense mechanism. D. the user's gender.
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A) the shared environment the siblings experienced. B) the nonshared environment the siblings experienced. C) genetics. D) an equal combination of genes and the environment.