Frieda used to be afraid of dental visits because she associated the sound of the drill with pain. However, Frieda's new dentist is "painless" and the sound of the drill is no longer associated with pain. Consequently, Frieda finds her fear of dental visits has disappeared. Frieda's change in responsiveness to dental visits illustrates the classical conditioning process referred to as:
a. extinction
b. spontaneous recovery
c. conditioned inhibition
d. second-order conditioning
A
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A. Piaget underestimated children's contributions to their own development. B. Piaget assumed that all cognitive-developmental stages are universal. C. Piaget focused too much on unconscious drives and motivations. D. Piaget focused too heavily on emotional and social factors that influence development.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Behaviorists did not study mental phenomena
Immediately after delivery, many women report ____
a. faster and more intense excitement stages of the sexual response cycle and an increase in vaginal lubrication b. slower and less intense excitement stages of the sexual response cycle but an increase in vaginal lubrication c. slower and less intense excitement stages of the sexual response cycle and a decrease in vaginal lubrication d. faster and more intense excitement stages of the sexual response cycle but a decrease in vaginal lubrication
_____, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, revised the Binet-Simon scale and released it in a form that is still used today (in its fifth edition)
A) William Stern B) Lewis Terman C) Henri Simon D) David Wechsler