Akia rubbed some cortisone cream on the spot where a mosquito had bitten her and the itching stopped. The next time a mosquito bit her, she reached for the cortisone cream. In terms of operant conditioning, this is an example of
a. positive reinforcement.
b. negative reinforcement.
c. positive punishment.
d. response cost.
B
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Layla has difficulty recognizing spoken words, sometimes experiences memory problems, and occasionally has difficulty controlling her emotions. Which part of the brain is probably experiencing a problem that leads to this combination of symptoms?
A. Prefrontal cortex B. Anterior parietal lobe C. Right occipital lobe D. Left temporal lobe
Theorists now believe that certain people are born with to experience anxiety and also develop a toward anxiety disorders
a. psychological vulnerability; biological vulnerability b. biological vulnerability; psychological vulnerability c. inherited predisposition; situational trauma d. situational trauma; inherited predisposition
Shaffer et al. (1987) studied medical doctors who had described themselves as "loners" in medical school and found that these loners
A) had less successful careers than non-loners. B) actually had more friends later in life than non-loners. C) had higher rates of cancer than non-loners. D) were less upset by stressful events than non-loners.
The primary weakness of the RBC model of object recognition is which of the following?
a) Failure to account for top-down processe b) Lack of evidence for the existence of geons c) Excess emphasis on the role of vertices d) Heavy reliance on templates