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Question

1. Kara was attacked by a dog when she was a child which caused her to develop a fear of dogs. Over the years, her fear of dogs has gradually disappered. She is now in her early thirties and recently went for a stroll through the park. While walking, she came across a dog of the same breed that attacked her many years earlier. When she saw that dog, she immediately experienced a slight fear response. Her resurfaced fear response is an example of

A. higher-order conditioning.

B. stimulus discrimination.

C. spontaneous recovery.

D. stimulus generalization.

2. Dr. Changer has designed an experiment to find out if a new anti-anxiety pill is effective. She has both an experimental group and a placebo group. She did this to:

A. evaluate how much influence the participant's expectations for improvement have on the condition being treated.

B. ensure that she had a representative sample of participants.

C. ensure that participants can be assigned at random to either the experimental or control group.

D. prove to the Food and Drug Administration that she is following good rules of research.

3. Which of the following is NOT associated with operant conditioning?

A. a conditioned stimulus

B. studying harder to earn more points on an exam

C. shaping

D. training a dog to roll over on command

4. When you look at the word "FOX", highly specialized neurons in the visual cortex are processing very specific parts of the image; some only responding to vertical lines, some only to horizontal lines, and some only to angled lines. These highly specialized neurons are called:

A. threshold enablers.

B. feature detectors.

C. transducers.

D. parallel processors.

5. Which type of learning would most likely involve an automatic emotional reaction?

A. operant conditioning

B. observational learning

C. classical conditioning

D. corndog conditioning

6. Research on levels of processing has proven that

A. thinking about how to spell words will enhance learning of those words better than thinking about the meaning of the words.

B. spacing out study sessions over time enhances learning.

C. the mind can unconsciously block traumatic memories from being recalled.

D. thinking about information in a meaningful way will enhance encoding.