Learning is strengthened each time a response is followed by a satisfying state of affairs, according to the law of
a. responding.
b. association.
c. effect.
d. diminishing returns.
C
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After he had established stages of REM and NREM sleep and correlated REM with dreaming, what did William C. Dement next do to participants in his research program?
A. He continued to monitor his participants' normal sleep patterns for several more nights. B. He kept his participants awake for several nights to see how REM and NREM deprivation would affect them. C. He allowed his participants to sleep normally so they would remember the content of their dreams. D. Each time his participants entered REM sleep, he would wake them and then allow them to return to NREM sleep.
Dr. Kendle believes that the best way to understand complex processes, such as taste, is to break the processes down into their component parts. Dr. Kendle's views are consistent with the:
a. functionalist approach to psychology b. behavioral approach to psychology c. structuralist approach to psychology d. nativist approach to psychology
Shalissa has two exams today. One is in French and the other is in history. Last night she studied French before history. When she gets to her history test, all she can remember is French! Shalissa's memory is suffering from
a. cue-dependent forgetting. b. proactive interference. c. decay. d. retroactive interference . e. encoding specificity.
Abdulkadir had a very strange thing happen to him last night. He was sound asleep in bed, and he was dreaming that he was at a party when he won the $250 million dollar lottery spin As everyone was screaming, jumping up and down, and celebrating, Abdulkadir had the strangest sensation that he was actually dreaming. As it turns out, unfortunately, he was right. What principle explains this experience?
a. lucid dreaming b. conscious dreaming c. unconscious dreaming d. sentient dreaming