People generally overpredict how long their emotional reactions to events will last
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Answer: T
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When Ken kisses Barbie, his heart races. For a month, Barbie snapped her fingers just before she kissed him. She stopped snapping her fingers, but now, whenever Ken hears someone snapping their fingers, his heart begins to race. This is an example of ____ conditioning, and finger snapping is the ____.?
a. ?classical; conditioned stimulus b. ?operant; conditioned stimulus c. ?classical; primary reinforcer d. ?operant; primary reinforcer
Consider an experiment in which a pigeon is placed in a Skinner box with a button on the wall. The cage contains a small green light that is turned on and off intermittently throughout the day. When the pigeon pecks the button when the green light is on, the behavior is reinforced with food. When it pecks the button when the green light is off, the behavior is not reinforced. The pigeon soon
learns that button pecking will be rewarded only when the green light is on. In this scenario, the green light is a(n)__________. A) unconditioned stimulus B) discriminative stimulus C) unlearned stimulus D) aversive stimulus E) Select
Peter was reading through the classifieds in the newspaper when he came across an advertisement for a position as a community psychologist. According to your textbook, a community psychologist could be expected to
A. conduct family therapy sessions. B. develop suicide prevention programs. C. serve meals at homeless shelters. D. facilitate self-help groups.
Kosslyn asked subjects if frogs have lips and a stubby tail. What did the subjects report?
a) They visualized a frog, starting with the face ("no lips") and mentally rotated the image to look for the stubby tail. b) They visualized a frog, starting with the face ("no lips"), had it disappear, and then visualized a completely new frog for a second time with its backside to them. c) They knew the answer but did not have to generate an image. d) They felt that that task was impossible to accomplish.