Betty is a smoker. She realizes that smoking is bad for her: however, she also feels being overweight is equally bad, and smoking helps her keep her weight down, so she chooses to continue. Betty is engaging in the reduction of __________

Researcher Eric Kandel discovered that when he tapped a certain body spot Aplysia, a sea slug, one time, the slug would retract its gills in a defensive maneuver. However, when Kandel touched the same spot repeatedly, the slug would eventually ignore the stimulus. This change in response demonstrates _____.

a. habituation b. sensitization c. extinction d. acquisition

Tony is a 12th-grade boy who is having trouble learning about anatomy. Seeing this, Tony's teacher has asked Gladys, a bright classmate of Tony's, to help him understand the

concepts he's having trouble with. Deciding to have Gladys help Tony learn anatomy, the teaca. fluid intelligence. b. absolute performance. c. zone of proximal development. d. triarchic theory of intelligence her is helping Tony work within his