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If you study to achieve an
A, you are studying because of _____, while studying to relieve your fear of
making an F involves _____.
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Positive reinforcement;
negative reinforcement
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Regarding REM and NREM sleep, which of the following
statements is TRUE?
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NREM sleep is dream free
about 90 percent of the time.
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Seymour is just waking up
when he realizes that he is paralyzed. He hears buzzing sounds and feels
electrical sensations shooting throughout his body. Seymour
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May also experience
hypnopompic hallucinations during this episode.
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Two important aspects of
stimulus control are operant stimulus _____ and operant stimulus _____.
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Generalization;
discrimination.
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Mnemonic techniques are
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Effective ways of avoiding
the necessity of rote learning.
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A loud noise awakens you; you emerge from sleep confused
and do not remember the noise. You were in which stage of sleep?
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Stage 4
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Side effects of the newer sleep medications, such as
Ambien and Lunesta, include which of the following?
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All of these
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A series of responses that
gradually approach a desired pattern of behavior are called
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Successive approximations.
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Roy G. Biv is taught by science teacher to help
students to remember the colors of the spectrum in order. Thus, Roy G. Biv
is an example of
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Acrostics.
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Conjoined twins, whose bodies are joined at birth, have
shown that
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it is not unusual for one twin to be
asleep while the other one is awake.
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Taking a midafternoon nap
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Can help people in
occupations that require long periods of alertness.
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Two groups of well-trained rats were placed on
extinction. One group was punished with a slap on the paw for each bar press, while
the other group was not. The experimenters found that bar pressing
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Reached extinction quicker
for the rats whose paws were not slapped.
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A puppy has begun to cry and bark in order to be let into
the house. To extinguish this response, you would
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ignore the crying, letting the puppy
in when quiet.
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Because the mind and
consciousness are fundamentally first-person phenomena, the basic challenge of
psychology is to use ______ studies of the brain and behavior to help us
understand them.
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Objective
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In daily life, learning is
usually based on _____ reinforcement, in which reinforcers do not follow every
response.
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Partial
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