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According to primacy and recency effects, when reading the chapters of a textbook, you are most likely to forget the information __________.

Mia is sometimes loud and disruptive in class, and her teacher thinks she acts this way when she wants attention. The teacher worries that yelling at Mia might serve as a positive reinforcer for her bad behavior because it is giving Mia the attention she wants. One behavior modification that might help with this child is use of __________.

Which of the following would serve as a primary reinforcer for most people?

Positive reinforcement is to __________ as negative reinforcement is to __________.

In the game show Jeopardy!, contestants are tested on general information. The type of memory used to answer these kinds of questions is __________ memory.

After a CS comes to elicit the CR, the CS now can be paired with a new neutral stimulus and this second neutral stimulus will start to elicit a CR. This process is called __________.

Little Albert was conditioned to fear a __________.

A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus that __________.

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) has been used to help children with autism spectrum disorder. The basic principle of this form of behavior modification is __________.

Culture-fair tests attempt to measure __________.