In the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris deliberately fakes his own headaches and stomach pains so that he could avoid going to school. Aside from his irresponsibility, Ferris would best be diagnosed as exhibiting ____

Imagine taking a bite of a pizza. Briefly discuss the role that each part of the brain plays in this simple act

What will be an ideal response?

Studies of response-outcome relations and reinforcement have found that

a. operant behavior is automatically strengthened when it is followed by desirable consequences. b. people actively reason out the relations between responses and the outcomes that follow. c. there are species-specific predispositions to form certain types of associations. d. on concurrent schedules of reinforcement, organisms emit responses that maximize the total number of reinforcers they will receive.