Question 1

Describe how a researcher can determine which stimulus features elicit modal action patterns.

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Question 2

How does the dual-process theory account for habituation effects? Sensitization effects?

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Question 3

The opponent-process theory suggests that alcoholics continue drinking to

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Question 4

How does the opponent-process theory of motivation explain drug tolerance and addictive behaviors? What is the evidence for the underlying mechanisms?

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Question 5

Describe how researchers ensure that fatigue and sensory adaptation are not the cause of response decrements in experiments investigating habituation.

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Question 6

How can a response that has decreased through habituation to the eliciting stimulus be reinstated? Describe two methods.

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Question 7

Describe the opponent-process theory of motivation.Using an example from common human experience,demonstrate how the mechanisms of the theory account for an overt response.

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Question 8

What is the difference between a modal action pattern and a simple general reflex? Provide an example of each.

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Question 9

What factors influence the elicitation of a modal action pattern?

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Question 10

Describe how elicited behavior can be involved in complex social interactions,like breast feeding.

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Question 11

Compare the dual-process theory to the opponent-process theory of motivation.What is the goal of each theory? What similarities do you notice in the mechanisms? Differences? How does each account for habituation effects?

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Question 12

Explain why repeated presentations of the same stimulus can elicit responses that decrease in one group of subjects and increase in another group of subjects.

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Question 13

Goal-directed behavior that brings about a desirable outcome

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Question 14

Your friend is surprised by his grandmother's reaction to the unfortunate passing of her husband.Although for years she had shown her husband no overt signs of affection,his death has left her devastated.You explain to your friend that according to the opponent-process theory this change is due to

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Question 15

Compare and contrast habituation and sensitization effects.Include descriptions of the time course and stimulus specificity of each.

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Question 16

Discuss the importance of behavioral sequences.What role do appetitive and consummatory behaviors play in organizing behavior? How do general search,focal search,and consummatory behaviors differ? Provide examples of each.

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Question 17

Explain how the same reflex can both promote and interfere with the well being of an organism.

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Question 18

Describe sign stimuli involved in the control of human behavior.

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Question 19

What is the biphasic pattern of emotional responses? Apply this concept in the description of a common human experience.

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Question 20

Explain the role of the S-R and state systems in elicited behaviors.

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Quiz 2: Elicited Behavior, Habituation, and Sensitization