In a series of conditioning experiments, a psychologist discovered that a rat readily made an association between the taste of flavored water and illness, but did not make an association between the taste of flavored water and a painful shock. The phenomenon called _____ best explains this example.
a. latent learning
b. stimulus discrimination
c. biological preparedness
d. instinctive drift
Answer: c. biological preparedness
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a. ability; motivation b. motivation; ability c. mentoring; leadership d. leadership; mentoring
Match the correct definition to the vocabulary word
a. Plasticity b. A correlation coefficient c. An experimental design d. Ethnography e. Systematic observation— f. Self-reports
Balint and Ameilia both have lost some of their hearing ability. The hair cells that feed information to Balint's acoustic nerve were damaged when he stood too close to the speakers at loud concerts. In Amelia's case, the neurons that normally carry sound messages from the cochlea to her brain were damaged by disease. Balint has __________ deafness, and Amelia has __________ deafness.
A. conduction; conduction B. conduction; nerve C. nerve; conduction D. nerve; nerve
A group of genes acting together to produce a specific trait or characteristic is known as a gene __________
a. cluster b. complex c. allele d. continuity