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Title: Teresa has a painful experience at the dentists office, so her mother takes Teresa to a new dentist, ...
Post by: bekah02 on Mar 14, 2018
Teresa has a painful experience at the dentists office, so her mother takes Teresa to a new dentist, one who takes great care to make her visits painless. Teresa is anxious at first, but after a few visits, Teresa gradually becomes less resistant about going to the new dentist. Teresas change in behavior can probably best be explained in terms of
 
  a. extinction.
 
   b. generalization.
 
   c. higher-order conditioning.
   d. sensory preconditioning.

Question 2

Teresa has a painful experience at the dentists office. The next time her mother brings her to the dentists office, Teresa begins to get tense and anxious. Teresas anxiety is a(n)
 
  a. unconditioned stimulus.
   b. operant response.
 
   c. conditioned stimulus.
 
   d. conditioned response.

Question 3

Teresa has a painful experience at the dentists office. The next time her mother brings her to the dentists office, Teresa begins to get tense and anxious. In this situation, the dentist and dentists office are
 
  a. unconditioned stimuli.
 
   b. unconditioned responses.
   c. conditioned stimuli.
 
   d. conditioned responses.

Question 4

Edward is severely beaten by his alcoholic father on several occasions. Before long, Edward begins to shake whenever his father approaches. In this situation, Edwards father is a(n)
 
  a. unconditioned stimulus.
   b. conditioned stimulus.
 
   c. unconditioned response.
   d. conditioned response.

Question 5

Pavlovian (classical) conditioning is to involuntary response as operant conditioning is to response.
 
  a. extinguished
   b. generalized
 
   c. fixed
 
   d. voluntary

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT an example of learning from a behaviorist point of view?
 
  a. Abigail cries when she steps on a sharp pebble.
 
   b. After many hours of heated debate, Brian begins to advocate political practices he previously opposed.
 
   c. Cara suddenly recognizes how the division fact 24/4 = 6 is related to the multiplication fact 6  4 = 24.
   d. David has been running away from German shepherds ever since he was bitten by a German shepherd two years ago.


Title: Teresa has a painful experience at the dentists office, so her mother takes Teresa to a new dentist, ...
Post by: Anyy on Mar 14, 2018
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Title: Teresa has a painful experience at the dentists office, so her mother takes Teresa to a new dentist, ...
Post by: bekah02 on Mar 14, 2018
All correct!


Title: Teresa has a painful experience at the dentists office, so her mother takes Teresa to a new dentist, ...
Post by: Anyy on Mar 14, 2018
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