When Salina was a young girl, a dog viciously attacked her as she was walking along a white picket fence. Since then, she displays intense fear of white picket fences. Salina is demonstrating
a. a discriminative stimulus.
b. superstitious behavior.
c. stimulus discrimination.
d. a phobia.
e. spontaneous recovery.
d
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A. They are irrelevant to the case and can be disregarded. B. According to the Brady rule, you are required to provide the inconclusive report to the defense. C. According to the Brady rule, you must provide the information to the defense but only if they formally request it. D. Because there were inconclusive fingerprints, you are not permitted to call the examiner as an expert witness to testify about the prints that were successfully matched.
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What will be an ideal response?
The teacher expectancy effect can be viewed as a special case of a broader concept known as the ________, in which a person's expectation is capable of bringing about an outcome
A) self-efficacy effect B) self-fulfilling prophecy C) self-esteem effect D) Pygmalion effect
Which statement is true about cognitive functioning in late adulthood?
A) Mental abilities that rely on biologically based information-processing skills are sustained longer. B) Research reveals less individual variation in cognitive functioning in late adulthood than at any other time of life. C) Older adults who sustain high levels of cognitive functioning engage in selective optimization with compensation. D) Generally, cognitive improvement and maintenance outweigh cognitive loss as people approach the end of life.