Nicole's mother is terribly afraid of snakes. Although Nicole has never actually seen a snake, her mother
has told her time and again to be careful and look for them when she is walking.
Now Nicole has an
intense fear of snakes and refuses to walk in the grass. This is an example of
A) vicarious conditioning of a phobia.
B) unconscious displacement of anxiety onto a phobic object.
C) classical conditioning of a phobia.
D) operant conditioning of a phobia.
Question 2After the car accident, Sherry was unable to remember what happened from the time of the crash until the
following morning. Sherry appears to have experienced
A) dissociative fugue. B) anterograde amnesia.
C) retrograde amnesia. D) amnestic disorder.
Question 3When Kenneth was a young boy he went to a dentist who treated him uncaringly and inflicted a good deal
of pain. Even years later, he has a uncontrollable and intense fear of not only dentists but physicians, too.
This best illustrates how phobias might be the result of
A) generalization in classical conditioning. B) the inflation effect.
C) secondary gain. D) observational conditioning.
Question 4Loretta has a long history of first idealizing men and then feeling they have abandoned her. Feelings of
emptiness change into reckless acts of sexual promiscuity, gambling, and suicide attempts. She feels that
she has never had a sense of self.
Loretta probably has ________ personality disorder.
A) dependent B) borderline C) histrionic D) narcissistic
Question 5When Charissa was a young child, she stepped on a bee and was stung. Since that time, she has been
terrified of flying insects and runs away if she sees any. According to the classical conditioning model, the
bee was
A) an unconditioned response. B) an unconditioned stimulus.
C) a conditioned response. D) a conditioned stimulus.
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