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The area of the brain critically involved in the formation of long-term declarative memories is

Stephanie has learned that if she asks for money from her mother she will receive it without a problem. However, she knows that if she asks for money from her father she will get scolded for spending all of her allowance and will not be given money. This is an example of:

According to the work of Breland and Breland, the ability of food reinforcement to control behavior is limited because:

Seligman has claimed that learned helplessness produces _________, _________, and _________?

Compulsive gamblers are likely to release high levels of _________ when gambling.

Kalat and Rozin (1971) proposed the learned safety view of flavor-aversion learning which claims that:

Pigs can be operantly conditioned very quickly to deposit coins in a “piggy bank” for food reinforcement. However, with continued training, the effectiveness of the operant behavior declines as the pigs begin to show more instinctive behavior toward the coins. The change in the pigs’ behavior is an example of:

According to Holland (1983) the occasion-setting properties of a stimulus refers to its ability to:

Which of the following set of statements was most likely made by a depressed person, according to Seligman’s revised theory of helplessness?

In times of disasters, such as hurricanes or earthquakes, looters often rob stores. These looters recognize that it is relatively safe to steal since law enforcement is busy dealing with the disaster. In terms of discrimination training, looters are operating in a: