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If Pavlov repeatedly presented the conditioned stimulus, the metronome, without the unconditioned stimulus, the food, the dogs would stop salivating to the sound of the metronome. In classical conditioning, this process is called

When placed in a cage with a terry-cloth “mother” and a wire “mother” equipped with a feeding nipple, rhesus monkeys:

In regard to the traits necessary to describe personality, psychologists are now generally agreed that:

Jose works as a researcher conducting studies in developmental psychology. Which of the research questions is Jose LEAST likely to address in his work?

Noah’s mother believes that Noah, a nine-month-old, is still in Piaget’s sensorimotor stage of cognitive development. To test this belief, which of the following could she try?

What is the so-called magic number with respect to working memory?

Trait theories, like the five-factor theory, are important because they

A child perseverates (or repeats) in her response, searching for an item in the location from where it was last recovered rather than its new location. Piaget called this behavior __________.

According to psychoanalytic theory, boys’ fear of castration is most closely associated with:

Which of the following describes a social norm?