Regarding escape and avoidance learning, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Avoidance learning involves both classical and operant conditioning.
b. Once avoidance is learned, it is very persistent.
c. Once the individual avoids the event, he or she gets no information to change his or her expectancy.
d. Escape learning reflects the operation of response cost.
D
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a) may be influenced by emotional factors b) has some inherited quality that relaxes us c) may release hormones and neurotransmitters that are comforting d) is reflexive
Jung wrote his autobiography
a. True b. False
Aging adults tend to be characterized by a gradual slowing in response to stimuli. This is called
a. fatigue. b. loss of resilience. c. behavioral slowing. d. sedentary inhibition.
Chapter 5 describes a study by Viorica Marian and Caitlin Fausey, who studied English-Spanish bilinguals. They presented two stories in English and two stories in Spanish
Then the researchers asked questions about the stories, sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish. The results showed that a. there were no significant differences between conditions, demonstrating that encoding-specificity effect is weak. b. people were more accurate in the English-English condition, compared to the Spanish-Spanish condition. c. people were more accurate in the Spanish-Spanish condition, compared to the English-English condition. d. people were more accurate when the language of the stories matched the language of the questions.