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Unlike other schedules of reinforcement, _________________________ results in a “scalloped” pattern of responses on a cumulative frequency graph.

Which of the following is a projective test?

In Zimbardo’s prison study, male college students agreed to participate in a 2-week experiment to discover what would happen when they took on the roles of prisoners ad guards.  After the prisoners staged a revolt, the researchers found that ___________________________. 

A dissociative state that involves sudden travel from home, sometimes taking on a new identity in the new place, and amnesia regarding the trip and one’s actual personal information is called _________________________. 

A technique for treating phobias and other stress disorders in which the person is suddenly exposed to the fear-provoking situation or object in an intense way and is preventing from making the usual avoidance or escape response is called _________________________. 

When members of a group give priority to the cohesiveness of the group over the facts of a situation, they are engaging in what social psychologists call ___________________________.

Which statement correctly characterizes one aspect of Stanley Milgram’s study was obedience?

Which is the BEST explanation of the Cannon-Bard theory?

When examining the rates of homosexuality between identical twins and fraternal twins or non-twin siblings, researchers found that if one identical twin is gay, his brother has a ____________________________ percent chance of being gay as well, and if a fraternal twin is gay, his brother has a ____________________________ percent chance of being gay as well. 

____________________________ are habitual targets of displaced aggression.