The fact that you answer the phone only when it rings is an example of the guidance of

behavior by

a. negative reinforcement.
b. successive approximations.
c. generalizing stimuli.
d. discriminative stimuli.
e. blocking.


d. discriminative stimuli.

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In Bandura's classic (1965) study of children exposed to a film of an adult hitting a doll, BOTH the children who saw the model rewarded and the children who saw the model punished ______

a. learned how to be aggressive b. learned nothing about the capacity to be aggressive c. performed equally aggressively in a spontaneous (free) play situation d. refused to perform aggressively in a spontaneous (free) play situation

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In the United States, __________ students are the most isolated group

A) black B) Hispanic C) white D) Asian

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Individuals who have committed murder in "a fit of rage" have been found to have:

a. A severe case of proactive aggression b. Excessive activity in the prefrontal cortex c. Reduced activity in the prefrontal cortex d. Damage to the amygdala

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__________ is a harmful behavioral syndrome in which one person invades another's privacy in an effort to create a relationship with that other person

a. Unrequited love b. Love sickness c. Manic love d. Stalking

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