Willfully putting thoughts out of ones consciousness is called
A) regression.
B) denial.
C) suppression.
D) avoidance conflict.
Question 2Psychotherapy, as we know it today, involves
A) learning new labels for experience.
B) learning to express unwanted thoughts.
C) expressing feared material without reprimand
D) all of the above
Question 3What is the rebound effect?
A) People suppressing thoughts often think of the unwanted thoughts later with greater frequency.
B) People completely forget what they were trying to suppress and cannot think of it later when they want
to recall the information.
C) People are unable to suppress information when given conflicting instructions by researchers.
D) People first suppress a bit of information and it becomes repressed information.
Question 4A primary reinforcer
A) increases the frequency of responding.
B) is always pleasant.
C) is determined by the environment
D) is learned, rather than innate.
Question 5Punishment
A) has no potential adverse effects
B) reduces the frequency of behavior.
C) influences only the behavior that is punished.
D) all of the above
Question 6An approach to personality measurement that is based on assessing the frequency of prototypical
behaviors is the
A) action paradigm.
B) behavioral paradigm.
C) base rate approach.
D) act-frequency approach
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