The Most Basic Principle to Follow in Coping with Loneliness

question 24

Multiple Choice

The most basic principle to follow in coping with loneliness is

• A) love.
• B) recognizing the differing needs of each kind of loneliness.
• C) finding appropriate groups or organizations to join.
• D) to find ways to keep busy and occupied.

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Definitions:

Occasion-Setting Properties

Stimuli or contexts that signal the availability of reinforcement or punishment, influencing how an organism responds to other stimuli.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, begins to elicit a conditioned response.

Lock Conditioning

A method of conditioning where the conditioned stimulus locks the response until the unconditioned stimulus is presented, although this term is not traditionally used in psychological literature, it seems to be a misunderstanding or miscreation.

Conditional Discrimination Task

A learning task where subjects learn to make distinctions between stimuli or responses based on conditional cues or contexts.