Psychology 2080A/B Midterm: midterm notes

40. Milgram's studies of obedience demonstrated that, in general A) women, but not men, obey commands made by authority figures B) men, but not women, obey commands made by authority figures C) only people with authoritarian personalities will obey authority figures D) most people obey commands made by authority figures E) most people disobey commands made by authority figures

36. A lawyer escapes an unhappy family situation by going to a tavern. Soon she is stopping by the tavern on her way home from work every day. Avoiding her family by going to the tavern is an example of behaviour maintained by A) punishment B) classical conditioning C) extinction D) positive reinforcement E) negative reinforcement

36. Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which: a. responses come to be controlled by their consequences. b. an organism's responding is influenced by the observation of others' c. an organism engages in a response that brings aversive stimulation to an end. d. a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to elicit a response that was originally elicited by another stimulus.