Throwing away one plastic bag may seem inconsequential to an individual, but across the world several billion plastic bags are used every year and thrown away, which causes environmental damage. This is an example of

a. a carbon-neutral lifestyle.
b. the cost-benefit ratio.
c. the tragedy of the commons.
d. learned helplessness.

ANSWER: c

Psychology

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Which of the following would most clearly be an example of accommodation?

a. when you use motherese in order to teach your child a new word b. when you misremember what you learned about single parents in Psych 101 so as to be consistent with your prior experiences with single parents c. when a child with Down syndrome shows more sophisticated reasoning about math problems than on other problems of comparable complexity d. when you change your beliefs about how children learn after taking Psych 101

Psychology

Last year, dr m cleaned natachas skin with rubbing alcohol prior to administering each of a series of painful rabies vaccination shots. Which of the following processes accounts for the fact that natacha currently becomes fearful every time she smells rubbing alcohol?

A) cognitive learning B) classical conditioning C) observational learning D) operant conditioning

Psychology