Pablo is seen walking down the street, shouting at imaginary individuals "to turn it down."
When the police stop him and ask him why he is shouting, he tells them that the transmitter that the CIA implanted in his head is "not working properly" and is too loud. Pablo's disorder falls within which DSM5 category?
a. schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
b. obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
c. somatic symptom and related disorders
d. dissociative disorders
ANSWER: a
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In this situation, the dad's mood might have served as __________ a) a neutral stimulus. b) a generalized stimulus. c) a reinforcer. d) a discriminative stimulus.
When Keller and Marian Breland, two psychologists who became animal trainers, decided that it would be cute to have a pig drop a big wooden coin into a box, they found that
a. food was not an effective reinforcer for the pig and so learning didn't occur. b. when given edible roots as reinforcers, the pig learned the task in less than ten trials. c. the pig displayed instinctive drift by dropping the coin and pushing it around with its nose. d. the pig showed intrinsic interest in the task and so reinforcement was unnecessary. e. the pig would demonstrate learned helplessness.