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B · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Tests usually cause anxiety in students. Students learn to become anxious when they take tests because they are graded and evaluated. But if a teacher starts giving tests in which students are given a second chance to improve their grades, test anxiety may diminish. After a vacation, however, the first self-graded test may elicit more nervousness from students than did the last self-graded test given before the vacation. This is an example of which of the following?

a. contingency
b. spontaneous recovery
c. satiation
d. acquisition

Question 2

Any relatively permanent change in thought or behavior that occurs as a result of experience.

a. cognition
b. maturation
c. learning
d. context