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21. 

The reemergence of an extinguished conditioned response after a period of rest and with no further conditioning is known as _____.

A. 

extinction

B. 

habituation

C. 

spontaneous recovery

D. 

deconditioning

22. 

Which of the following scenarios best exemplifies spontaneous recovery? 

A. 

Alexis is a former cocaine user. Now that she no longer uses cocaine, her hands no longer shake and her heart no longer pounds when she hears a car pull into her drive, like her dealer used to do in his car.

B. 

Alexis uses cocaine. She no longer feels quite the same rush as she did when she first started using.

C. 

Alexis is a former cocaine user in recovery. After a relapse, though, her hands shake and her heart pounds when she hears a car pull into her drive, like her dealer used to do in his car.

D. 

Alexis uses cocaine. She finds that she is slowly losing her sense of smell.

23. 

_____ is a process in which, after a stimulus has been conditioned to produce a particular response, stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus produce the same response.

A. 

Stimulus location

B. 

Stimulus generalization

C. 

Stimulus reflexive

D. 

Stimulus discrimination

24. 

Which of the following is TRUE of stimulus generalization? 

A. 

It is the process that occurs if two stimuli are sufficiently distinct from one another.

B. 

The greater the similarity between two stimuli, the greater the likelihood of stimulus generalization.

C. 

The conditioned response elicited by the new stimulus is usually more intense than the original conditioned response.

D. 

Stimulus generalization provides the ability to differentiate between stimuli.

25. 

Rosa becomes anxious when she enters the examination room at the clinic before a blood test. She also squirms when she views injections on television. This illustrates:

A. 

observational learning.

B. 

stimulus generalization.

C. 

spontaneous recovery.

D. 

stimulus discrimination.

26. 

_____ occurs if two stimuli are sufficiently distinct from each other that one evokes a conditioned response but the other does not. 

A. 

Stimulus location

B. 

Stimulus generalization

C. 

Stimulus diffusion

D. 

Stimulus discrimination

27. 

Which of the following terms best expresses the relationship between stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination? 

A. 

They are unrelated.

B. 

They are opposites.

C. 

They are the same thing.

D. 

Stimulus discrimination is a type of stimulus generalization.

28. 

June’s cat runs to the kitchen at the sound of the electric can opener, which she has learned is used to open her food when her dinner is about to be served. The cat does not run when a blender is used, although it sounds similar. June’s cat is demonstrating stimulus: 

A. 

control.

B. 

discrimination.

C. 

generalization.

D. 

diffusion.

29. 

Janine completed several tours of duty in Afghanistan. She suffers from PTSD. Now, back home in Texas, she is frightened by firecrackers and cars backfiring. The fact that these sounds scare her reflects a process of stimulus:

A. 

diffusion.

B. 

discrimination.

C. 

generalization.

D. 

control.

30. 

Stimulus _____ provides the ability to differentiate between stimuli.

A. 

control

B. 

discrimination

C. 

generalization

D. 

diffusion