Your Ears Receive Sound Waves and Convert This Energy into Neural

question 43

Multiple Choice

Your ears receive sound waves and convert this energy into neural messages that travel to your brain and are processed as sounds. This is an example of ________.

• A) a just noticeable difference
• B) subliminal perception
• C) top-down processing
• D) transduction

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Definitions:

Anxiety

A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.

Partial Reinforcement

A conditioning strategy where a reward is not administered every time the desired behavior is performed, leading to more resistant learned behavior.

Continuous Reinforcement

The reinforcement of each and every correct response.

Negative Reinforcer

is a stimulus whose removal following a behavior increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated in the future.