Janice has OCD. She is bothered by thoughts that she has left her apartment door unlocked. This thought pattern is best classified as?:
A) ?a negatively reinforced operant.
B) ?a positively reinforced operant.
C) ?a respondent.
D) ?adjunctive behavior.
C
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The term infantile autism comes from the Greek autos. This reflects which key characteristic of people with the disorder?
a. selfishness and guiltlessness b. automatic quality of thinking c. robot-like movements d. profound aloneness and detachment
A reduction in response rate following reinforcement is called a _________
a. post-reinforcement pause b. scallop c. latency d. rest stop
Sarah is highly motivated to run the New York City Marathon. She has trained very hard for the race and believes that it will be a defining moment in her life. Abraham Maslow might call this __________
a) self-actualization. b) a peak experience. c) a condition of worth. d) self-efficacy.
One of the psychoanalytic perspective's lasting contributions is its
A) cross-cultural implications. B) emphasis on the importance of experiences beyond infancy and early childhood. C) emphasis on how parents manage their child's sexual and aggressive drives in the first few years. D) ability to capture the essence of personality during each period of development.