You are a participant in an experiment in which you are first shown a lighted square that
reads:
"Press this square." When you press the square, a piece of candy drops into a tray
below the square. To know whether you are involved with Pavlov's procedure, you would
need to determine
a. the reliability with which the lighted square preceded the candy.
b. if an escape response is being used.
c. whether the candy elicits salivation, or orientation, or both.
d. the reliability with which pressing the square precedes the candy.
e. whether the appearance of the lighted square always resulted in the response of pressing it.
a. the reliability with which the lighted square preceded the candy.
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a) instrumental learning. b) observational learning. c) classical conditioning. d) habituation.
After reading the text discussion of insanity, do you feel insanity is too often used as a defense? Whatever your feeling, how do you think insanity should be defined, and why?
What will be an ideal response?