When a young child discovers that simply changing the shape of an object does not necessarily change the amount of the object (e.g., a flattened ball of clay contains the same amount of clay as when it was rolled into a ball), the child is showing an understanding of

The tendency for people to view their behavior as caused by compelling extrinsic reasons, making them underestimate the extent to which it was caused by intrinsic reasons.

A. over-justification effect B. intrinsic motivation C. misattribution of arousal D. appraisal theories of emotion

Encouraging individuals to think of obsessions without allowing them to engage in compulsive behavior is the gist of the _____ technique

a) aversion therapy b) flooding c) systematic desensitization d) exposure and response prevention