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According to your text, which of the following statements regarding punishment is true?
 
  a. Punishment encourages the individual to be more attentive in most learning situations.
  b. Punishment may generate anger and hostility rather than constructive learning.
  c. Punishment eliminates undesirable behavior rather than suppressing it.
   d. Punishment reinforces the individual's ability to understand and willingness to engage in appropriate
   behavior.

Question 2

The process of repeating an experiment in other settings or at other times is called ______.
 
  a. reiteration c. replication
   b. correlation d. a control study

Question 3

Painful or aversive stimuli that decrease or suppress the frequency of the preceding behavior
   are known as ______.
 
  a. positive reinforcers c. extinguishers
   b. negative reinforcers d. punishments

Question 4

In an experiment on treatments for depression, a researcher uses a sample consisting of
   depressed subjects who are NOT typical of the general population of depressed subjects.
 
  Although the treatment works on the sample subjects, it is unlikely to work on depressed
   people in general. Which type of validity does this study lack?
   a. analogue validity c. internal validity
   b. external validity d. construct validity

Question 5

An experiment's generalizability or applicability beyond the original sample to other
   subjects, settings, and times is called _______ validity.
 
  a. analogue c. internal
   b. construct d. external
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