What Effect Did the Execution of John Brown Have on Southern

question 25

Multiple Choice

What effect did the execution of John Brown have on southern whites?

• A) Their fears were allayed because his execution sent a message in defense of slavery.
• B) Southern whites used even greater violence toward their slaves.
• C) Brown's execution did little to assure southern whites that the institution of slavery was safe.
• D) Southern whites were motivated to arm themselves and their plantations against the next Brown.

Recognize the role of psychology as a science and its reliance on empirical evidence.

Describe the impact of cultural and sociohistorical contexts on psychology and behavior.

Explain the concept of heredity and environment's joint influence on behavior.

Understand the diversity and theoretical underpinnings of psychological study.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus used during the original conditioning.

Conditioned Fear

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly paired with an aversive stimulus, leading to an anticipatory fear response.

Little Albert

An experiment conducted by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner that demonstrated classical conditioning in humans, specifically showing how a child could be conditioned to fear a white rat.

Counterconditioning

A behavior therapy technique that involves replacing an undesirable response to a stimulus with a more desirable one.