STAC Stands for

question 19

Multiple Choice

STAC stands for

• A)Social Tact and Cognition
• B)Specialized Telemeres and Cognitive Functioning
• C)Scaffolding Theory of Cognitive Aging
• D)Social-Congitive Theory of Adult Competence

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Definitions:

CS

is an abbreviation that can stand for conditional stimulus in behavioral psychology, representing a previously neutral stimulus that, after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned response when it is no longer reinforced.

Experimental Neurosis

A pattern of erratic or maladaptive behavior in animals caused by exposure to unpredictable and uncontrollable events, used as a model to study human neuroses.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.