Question 110.5 pts In B.F. Skinner\'s experiments, when pigeons are conditioned

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Question 110.5 pts

In B.F. Skinner's experiments, when pigeons are conditioned to peck at a certain colored disc, and that disc is not longer present, they will peck at the closest available color to get the food reward.

This is called;

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Question 120.5 pts

Slot machines and other gambling devices pay-out on a variable ratio schedule of reinforcement;

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Question 130.5 pts

If a conditioned behavior is not reinforced, it will diminish and possibly stop. This is known as;

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Question 140.5 pts

A dog walker in Faxon Park comes upon a middle-aged man sitting on a stone bench in the park. The man asks the dog walker to help him; he has no idea who he is, where he is, or how he got there. The dog walker calls the police; the responding officers call EMS after speaking with the man, and the ambulance transports him to Massachusetts General Hospital. A CAT scan and MRI show no physical injuries at all to the man’s brain, and a toxicology screen shows that he has no drugs or alcohol in his system.

The mystery man likely suffers from;

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Johnny Dickwhistle exhibited no abnormal behavior until around his 20th birthday. He then began hearing voices inside his head that he couldn’t turn off; the voices are sometimes gibberish, but sometimes tell him to “do bad things”. He becomes convinced that the National Security Agency has implanted a computer microchip inside his brain to control his thoughts, and takes to fashioning hats out of aluminum foil to block the NSA transmissions.

Johnny likely suffers from;

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You approach an intersection where there is heavy traffic, and your traffic light is solid red. As you get to the intersection, there is a police officer in full uniform, who points at your car and waves you forward, even though the traffic light is red. You proceed through the intersection, even as you feel as bit awkward for having gone through a red light.

In social psychology, this is known as;

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Question 170.5 pts

You're driving down Route 95 South towards Foxborough, on the way to see the New England Patriots thrash the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game. Having left early, traffic is light, but suddenly a car flies by you at 90+mph, weaving in and out of traffic, even bouncing off the guardrail several times. The car is going so fast, it's soon out of sight, and you chalk it up to a typical insecure Steelers fan who started drinking at breakfast to prepare himself for the beating his team was going to take that day.

A few minutes later, you see blue lights ahead, with the previously speeding car now stopped in front of a state police cruiser in the breakdown lane. A state trooper is kneeling next to an elderly man laying on the ground, who you recognize as being the driver of the speeding car. The trooper is frantically doing CPR on the man, who appears to be having a medical emergency. After the game, you hear on the news that the man had a heart attack while driving, and was trying to reach the hospital when the police caught up to him.

Your assumption that the man was drunk is what's called a;

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Question 180.5 pts

At the family holiday party, your loudmouth uncle, who isn't known for his tact & class to begin with, has a few too many Scotch & sodas, and begins to launch into a loud diatribe about different ethnic groups.

From across the room, he yells to your friend Tommy O'Malley. "Hey Tommy, want a drink? Ooops, silly me, of course you want another drink, you're Irish!!!" then laughs uproariously, not noticing that no one else is laughing.

Your drunken uncle is engaging in;

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Question 190.5 pts

Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) is an aggressive form of treatment for what type of mental disorder;

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Question 200.5 pts

What is the main benefit of group therapy?

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7. Fundamental attribution error

Justification:

The fundamental attribution error is our tendency to explain someone's behavior based on internal factors, such as personality or disposition, and to underestimate the influence that external factors, such as situational influences, have on another person's behavior.

8. stereotyping

Justification:

In social psychology, a stereotype is any thought widely adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of behaving intended to represent the entire group of those individuals or behaviors as a whole. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality.

9. Severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Justification:

Emotional Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Sufferers of OCD are generally very anxious and emotional. They display many non-OCD symptoms, such as signs of depression, excessive worry, extreme tension, and the constant feeling that nothing is ever right.

10. All of the above: such as

Altruism

Psychoeducation

Experience of a positive group

Development of social skills

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Altruism

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