An infant increases its sucking rate when it hears a sound. After repetitions of that sound, the sucking rate declines. What term applies to this decrease of response?

Which of the following best accounts for why women are more likely to be diagnosed with histrionic personality disorder than men?

a. Women are more likely to develop this disorder. b. The symptoms tend to be maladaptive exaggerations of traits normally seen in women. c. Women are naturally more likely than men to engage in attention-seeking behaviors. d. The primary feature of this disorder is emotionality and women are more emotional than men.

The strange statistic showing that front page suicide stories lead to increases in airplane and automobile fatalities was argued in Influence to be best explained by which of the following interpretations?

(a) Bereavement. (b) Secret Imitation Suicide. (c) Similar Social Conditions. (d) None of the above.