Which of the following statements is true?
a. Classical conditioning is an effective way to strengthen muscle tone.
b. Classical conditioning is the associating of two things not normally associated with each other.
c. Classical conditioning was once widely acknowledged, but has now been largely debunked.
d. Classical conditioning is thought to be more powerful for altering behavior than operant conditioning.
Question 2Lisa is an ill-behaved little girl. She pulls people's hair, shouts and stomps her feet, and refuses to share her toys. Skinner would argue that in order to understand her aggression, we must
A) look at her environment to see what elicits aggression and how it is rewarded.
B) examine her relationship to her parents and find out if she feels rejected by them.
C) do blood tests to see if she has some sort of chemical imbalance.
D) search for structural abnormalities in her brain.
E) determine whether her Electra complex has been resolved.
Question 3One possible way that homosexuality might have been selected for through evolution is by
A) kin selection.
B) multiplicative evolution.
C) selective attrition.
D) evolutionary sublimation.
E) open selection.
Question 4Instrumental conditioning is a passive process.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 5Leak and Christopher interpreted Freud's ideas through the framework of
a. humanistic psychology.
b. the neoanalytic perspective.
c. evolutionary psychology.
d. the conditioning approach.
Question 6Darla recently moved into a new apartment to discover that she could hear the people above her walking around all day long. At first this was driving her crazy, but now she rarely notices it. This is called __________.
a. shaping
b. habituation
c. discrimination
d. flooding
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