In operant conditioning, __________ is necessary to create the association between the stimulus and the repetition of a voluntary response.

A) reinforcement
B) the law of negative effect
C) conditional emotional linkages
D) a long time delay

An egocentric fallacy is the mistaken belief that

A) one's sexual behavior is superior to others.
B) one's intellectual ability is superior to others.
C) one's own values are held by others.
D) one's values are mostly disagreed with by others.

The belief that a person's individual culture is the correct culture is an example of

A) ethics.
B) ethnocentrism.
C) ego.
D) None of these.

A pigeon is consistently reinforced with food for pecking a key after seeing an image of a human face,but not reinforced for pecking after seeing other images. By signaling that a pecking response will be reinforced,the image of a human face is a(n)

A) unconditioned stimulus.
B) partial reinforcement.
C) discriminative stimulus.
D) primary reinforcer.

Acquiring our gender identity by observing and imitating others' gender-linked behaviors is most clearly emphasized by

A) evolutionary psychology.
B) collectivism.
C) Freudian psychology.
D) social learning theory.

Rudy claims that his special psychic powers enable him to correctly anticipate whether the outcome of a coin toss will be heads or tails.Rudy is claiming to possess the power of

A) psychokinesis.
B) clairvoyance.
C) telepathy.
D) precognition.

Curare blocks the action of acetylcholine by occupying its receptor sites.In this context,what is curare

A)  a neurotransmitter 
B)  an agonist 
C)  a neuromodulator 
D)  an antagonist