Whenever Amy sees a dog, she experiences unpleasant bodily responses (rapid heart beat, upset stomach, and sweaty hands) and engages in escape behavior (runs away). In behavior modification, Amy's operant and respondent behavior is referred to as:
a. fear
b. reactivity
c. alarm
d. behavioral excess
a
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Which of the following is considered a stress hormone?
A. Acetylcholine B. Cortisol C. Dopamine D. Serotonin
Damage to the corpus callosum prevents ____
a. hallucinations b. release of pituitary hormones c. the exchange of information between the two hemispheres d. the exchange of information between pre- and postsynaptic membranes
Which of the following statements about how infants perceive the structure of speech is true?
A) Rules that infants extract from the speech stream do not generalize to nonspeech sounds. B) Parents must directly teach word-order rules for infants to understand the basic grammar of their language. C) Infants locate words by discriminating syllables that often occur together from syllables that seldom occur together. D) Infants do not become sensitive to the speech structure of individual words until after their first birthday.
The axon is
A. the branchlike part of the neuron that is responsible for receiving information from other neurons. B. located inside the cell body. C. the part of the neuron that carries information away from the cell body toward other cells. D. the layer of fat cells that encase and insulate the neuron.