When Pavlov placed food in the mouths of dogs, they began to salivate. The food acted as a(n) __________.
A. unconditioned response
B. unconditioned stimulus
C. conditioned response
D. conditioned stimulus
Answer: B
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Lucille is testing a new treatment for anxiety disorders. She has recruited participants, and assigns the first 50 recruits to the treatment condition and the second 50 to the placebo condition. Using this procedure to assign participants to conditions suggests Lucille does not understand the importance of in experimental research
a. placebo b. randomization c. assessment d. external validity
Subjects in the Brooks-Gunn longitudinal study of socioeconomic and ethnic factors in IQ were
a. orphans reared in uncaring institutions. b. teen dropouts given a second chance at school. c. children of award-winning scientists. d. low-birth-weight infants.
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a. ?habituation b. sensitization c. ?restructuring d. ?social learning