Rumination Refers To

question 8

Multiple Choice

Rumination refers to:

• A) the ability to control emotions and behaviors.
• B) being overly dependent on others.
• C) thinking obsessively about stressful experiences.
• D) believing that you have no control over a stressful situation.

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Definitions:

Primary Reinforcer

A stimulus that satisfies a basic biological need and does not require learning to be effective, such as food or water.

Basic Physical Need

A basic physical need refers to fundamental requirements for human survival, such as food, water, shelter, and sleep.

Discriminative Stimulus

A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response is reinforced, and in the absence of which that response is not reinforced, in the context of operant conditioning.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.