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a new stimulus-response association is classically conditioned, it must be paired with the old stimulus occasionally or reinforced to avoid a. second-order conditioning. b. extinction. c. stimulus generalization. d. stimulus discrimination. 68. In a study of college students with no history of emotional disturbance, students with higher right hemisphere activation were a. less likely to experience their first depressive episode. b. more likely to experience their first depressive episode. c. made depressed by the researchers. d. less likely to experience pleasure about routine 69. Psychologists use shaping because of which of the following limitations of operant conditioning? a. Punishment does not teach new responses, it only inhibits old ones. b. Behaviors will extinguish if they are not reinforced occasionally. c. One must wait for the organism's response before it can be rewarded or punished. d. Operant procedures condition responses only to very specific stimuli. 70. From his observations of cats escaping from a "puzzle box" to obtain a piece of fish, Thorndike developed a theory that is known as the law of a. operant conditioning. b. effect c. consequences. d. association. 71. Which of the following is characteristic of people who frequently experience loneliness? a. They enter a conversation with overly high expectations that the other person will like them immediately. b. They have a naively optimistic view of other people. c. They are relatively unaware of their faults and personal limitations. d. They appear to show little interest in getting to know other people.

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67. The correct answer is - B

After a new stimulus-response association is classically conditioned, it must be paired with the old stimulus occasionally or reinforced to avoid extinction.

68. The correct answer is - B

In a study of college students with no history of emotional disturbance, students with higher right hemisphere activation were more likely to experience their first depressive episode.

69. The correct answer is - C

Psychologists use shaping because of the limitation of operant conditioning which says that one must wait for the organism's response before it can be rewarded or punished.

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