If the instructor repeatedly raps the desk without firing the pistol, then the startle

response will diminish and finally disappear. This is called

(a) spontaneous deconditioning
(b) extinction (c) generalization
(d) discrimination (e) negative conditioning

B

Psychology

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Your text has a section on brain damage and recovery, which concludes with which of the following generalizations:

a. Brain damage that occurs prenatally can usually be remedied through medication during early childhood. b. The worst time to suffer brain damage is very early, during prenatal development and the first year after birth. c. The worst forms of brain damage tend to result from synaptic pruning that occurs over an extended period of development. d. New brain stimulation methods are dramatically decreasing the rates of negative consequences from early brain injuries.

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In It's In the Bag, the study of hypocrisy and condom use, it was not expected that there would be

differences amongthegroupsin their reports of past condom use because (a) they were all virgins (b) none of them wanted to admit using condoms (c) they were randomly assigned to groups (d) they had all heard the same lecture about the importance of condoms and they probably all lied to make themselves look like responsible people

Psychology