A child has leaned to avoid a furry, black cat. However, she still plays with her grandmother’s short-haired tabby. Her response demonstrates?

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1. Five-year-old David watches as you pour water from a short, wide glass into a tall, narrow one. He says there is now more water than before. This response demonstrates that:

   A. David understands the concept of conservation
   B. David does not understand the concept of conversion
   C. David cognitive development is “behind” for his age
   D. both b and c are the case

2. severing a cat’s reticular formation from higher brain regions causes that cat to:

   A. become sexually preoccupied
   B. lapse into a coma
   C. become violently aggressive
   D. cower in fear

3. Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
   1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
   2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
   3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
   4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single event

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 2,3 & 4
   C. 1,2 & 4
   D. 4

4. The study in which college students attached a bumper sticker for a militant black organization to their cars and then received frequent traffic citations demonstrates:

   A. group prejudice
   B. scapegoating
   C. personal prejudice
   D. discrimination

5. A child has learned to get his or her way with a younger sibling by using physical intimidation. If her or she uses the same tactics on peers, this demonstrates:

   A. social learning
   B. classical conditioning
   C. assimilation
   D. accommodation

6. If a child’s primary reason for not drawing pictures on the living room wall with crayons is avoid the punishment that would inevitably follow this behavior, she would be said to be at which level of moral development?

   A. conventional
   B. post-conventional
   C. pre-conventional
   D. unconventional

7. The basic understanding of the relationship between unconditioned response (UR) and conditioned response (CR) includes which of the following ideas?

   A. The UR and CR are not always the same response
   B. Organisms come to generally behave toward conditioned stimulus as they do unconditioned stimulus
   C. Stimulus situation
   D. The UR and CR are always the same response
   E. (a), (b) and (c)

8. Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the acquisition of a response; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the_______of a response.

   A. acquisition
   B. development
   C. performance
   D. generalization

9. Research on avoidance learning suggests that a fear response is acquired through_________conditioning: the avoidance response is maintained as a result of______conditioning.

   A. classical; operant
   B. operant; classical
   C. classical; classical
   D. operant; operant

10. A child who has been frightened by a dog develops a fear response to all dogs. This is known as:

    A. Stimulus Discrimination
    B. Extinction
    C. Spontaneous recovery
    D. Stimulus Generalization