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At the dentist's office, Teresa has a painful experience that leaves her tense and fearful. The next time her mother brings her to the dentist's office, Teresa begins to get tense and anxious. In this situation, the dentist and dentist's office are _____; Teresa's fear of pain is a(n) _____.
 
  a. unconditioned stimuli; conditioned response
  b. unconditioned responses; conditioned stimulus
  c. conditioned stimuli; unconditioned response
  d. conditioned responses; unconditioned stimulus

Question 2

After a painful experience at one dentist's office, Teresa's mother takes Teresa to a different dentist, who takes great care to make her visits painless. Teresa is anxious at first, but after a few visits, Teresa gradually becomes less resistant about going to the new dentist. Teresa's change in behavior can probably best be explained in terms of _____. But then Teresa doesn't go to see the dentist again until three years later. On her first visit to the painless dentist after that time interval, she is anxious once again, even though she had not been anxious in her previous visits. The return of this response after it had previously disappeared is known as _____.
 
  a. extinction; spontaneous recovery
  b. generalization; discriminative learning
  c. higher-order conditioning; discriminative learning
  d. generalization; higher-order conditioning



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Benayers

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a




soccerdreamer_17

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Gracias!


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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