Primary reinforcers
A) include food and water but not sex or elimination.
B) are directly related to a species survival.
C) are related to survival only in lower organisms.
D) have acquired their properties through pairing with secondary reinforcers.
Question 2Which of the following explains why we emit learned responses in situations similar to the one in which learning originally occurred?
A) stimulus generalization
B) response generalization
C) classical conditioning
D) discrimination
Question 3An operant response that is made under one set of circumstances but not under others is called a(n)
A) conditioned response.
B) discriminative operant.
C) adaptive response.
D) superstitious response.
Question 4According to Allport, personality is
A) static.
B) unconscious.
C) dynamic.
D) genetic.
Question 5Allport believed the best way to discover a persons true motives is to
A) analyze the persons dreams.
B) study a combination of things such as memory lapses, sense of humor, and choice of clothing.
C) analyze the persons musical preferences.
D ask the person about those motives.
Question 6What did Allport learn from his visit with Freud?
A) that it is possible to dig so deeply into the mind that important information may be overlooked
B) the importance of unconscious motivation
C) the origins of his own inhibitions
D) that his views of human nature were very similar to Freuds
Question 7In his therapeutic practice, Erikson
A) minimized dream analysis.
B) had his patients sit across from him in an easy chair.
C) concentrated on strengthening the patients ego.
D) all of the above
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