The Results from the Featured Study on Culture and Mating

question 42

Multiple Choice

The results from the Featured Study on culture and mating preferences tend to support which of the following theories of sexual motivation?

• A) cognitive theory
• B) humanistic theory
• C) psychoanalytic theory
• D) evolutionary theory

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Definitions:

Unconditioned Stimulus

An unconditioned stimulus is a stimulus that naturally triggers a response without the need for prior learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Meat Powder

In classical conditioning research, a substance used by Ivan Pavlov that triggered salivation in dogs as an unconditioned stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

An educational procedure involving the repeated pairing of two stimuli, resulting in a reaction initially caused by the second stimulus being provoked by only the first stimulus over time.