Which of the Following Statements Is True of Sibling Relationships

question 22

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of sibling relationships?

• A) Siblings who were psychologically distant from each other in childhood tend to be close in adulthood.
• B) The majority of sibling relationships in adulthood are apathetic.
• C) Sibling relationships rarely persist over the entire life span for most adults.
• D) It is rare for sibling closeness to develop for the first time in adulthood.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of rest with no further conditioning.

Higher-Order Conditioning

Occurs when a strong conditioned stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus, causing the neutral stimulus to become a second conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

Within the field of psychology, the slow diminishment and ultimate vanishing of a learned response occurs when a conditioned stimulus is continuously shown without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus.

Stimulus Generalization

The psychological phenomenon where a response conditioned to one stimulus is elicited by similar, but not identical, stimuli.