Summarizing Her Report on the Need to Belong,Rolanda States That

question 91

Multiple Choice

Summarizing her report on the need to belong,Rolanda states that

• A)"Cooperation among our ancestors was uncommon."
• B)"Social bonding is not in our nature; it is a learned human trait."
• C)"Because bonding with others increased our ancestors' success at reproduction and survival,it became part of our biological nature."
• D)"Our male ancestors were more likely to bond than were females."

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus that was conditioned originally.

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that was neutral but, after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus, begins to provoke a conditioned response.

Temporal Contiguity

The occurrence of two events close together in time, which can lead to an association between them in learning.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any learning needed.