Bernstein applied principles of classical conditioning to the study of taste aversion in young patients undergoing chemotherapy. The children were given some unusually flavored ice cream just before the chemotherapy. Later, the children showed an aversion to that flavor of ice cream. In this example of classical conditioning, the queasiness to the ice cream was:
a. a conditioned response
b. an unconditioned stimulus
c. an unconditioned response
d. a conditioned stimulus
A
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The social cognitive approach to stereotypes was discussed in some detail. Your neighbor, Mr. Walker, believes that men and women are very different from each other. The social cognitive approach would explain this belief by arguing that
a. we have all been conditioned to believe that gender differences are substantial. b. when we categorize people into two groups, we tend to exaggerate the difference between the groups. c. we learn to believe in gender differences by imitating models, either other people we know or people we see represented in the media. d. a belief in gender differences is innate or inborn in humans.
Children pick-up their language skills:
a. as their parents teach them grammatical rules directly b. implicitly c. as their parents teach them abstract concepts d. explicitly
Which of the following is NOT an example of the use of graphical statistics?
a. breaking down a set of math test scores into classes of equal size b. drawing a histogram based on a set of scores from a personality questionnaire c. graphing a set of IQ scores using a frequency polygon d. generalizing from small samples to a larger population
The four phases of the Masters and Johnson sexual response cycle include ____
a. excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution b. seduction, sensation, surrender, and reflection c. excitement, plateau, surrender, and reflection d. seduction, sensation, orgasm, and resolution