An animal trainer is conditioning an elephant to startle at the sound of a trombone. Every time she plays the trombone, she then shows the elephant a mouse, which startles the elephant. Eventually, the elephant startles at just the sound of the trombone. However, after playing the trombone 10 more times, without a mouse appearing, the elephant exhibits no response. The lack of a response is an

What was one of Alfred Kinsey's conclusions based on interviews with 18,000 men and women between 1938 and 1956?

a. Homosexuality was a perversion. b. Low sexual desire is a form of psychopathology. c. There is little diversity in normal sexual behaviors. d. Distinctions among sexual orientations were essentially meaningless.

Which of the following is the typical pattern of children's descriptions of others during middle childhood?

A) During middle childhood, children are unobservant and do not attempt to interpret or describe other people. B) Across the middle childhood period, children become less abstract and more concrete in their descriptions of others. C) During middle childhood, children use only observable, physical characteristics when they describe other people. D) During middle childhood, children talk more about internal characteristics or qualities that the individual seems to have.