Because you fed your dog table scraps while sitting at the kitchen table, your dog began to jump up and beg for scraps first whenever you were sitting at the kitchen table and later whenever you were sitting at any table or desk in the house. If you do not feed your dog while sitting at any other table besides the kitchen table, the jumping and begging response that originally generalized to all
the tables and desks will extinguish because of
a. negative reinforcement.
b. nonreinforcement.
c. positive punishment.
d. latent learning.
B
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A. behavioral factors B. environmental factors C. biological factors D. cognitive factors
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a. Egypt b. Belgium c. England d. Milwaukee
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a. military psychiatrists refused to allow psychologists to help in their treatment. b. the military asked psychologists to develop screening tests, which came to be called Army Alpha and Army Beta. c. psychologists successfully lobbied to add posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the DSM. d. none of the above
_____ refers to the mental processes that are involved in acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using information
a) Imagery b) Perception c) Sensation d) Cognition