A consequence that decreases the future likelihood of the behavior that it follows is called

a. positive reinforcement. c. self-efficacy.
b. negative reinforcement. d. punishment.


d

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Passively reading your textbook, without paying too much attention to it, rather than actively focusing on the new material is apt to lead to __________.

A. proactive interference B. decay C. retrieval failure D. encoding failure

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The concept called "intersectionality" means that

a. a person's ethnic background is considered more important than his or her gender. b. young adults must choose the dimension that is most important to them, for example, whether gender is more important than social class or sexual orientation. c. people belong to many social categories, so a low-income Black woman may have different experiences from a low-income White woman. d. people from only one ethnic category are more likely than biracial people to experience intersectionality.

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For which mode of behavior is a checklist most appropriate?

a. Cognitions b. Physiological responses c. Emotions d. Overt behavior

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The meaning of the word “pot” can be altered simply by changing the vowel to an “a”, forming the word “pat”. In this example, “a” is a(n) ____

a. ?phoneme b. ?morpheme c. ?open vowel d. ?pivot vowel

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