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Ritchie and Maddox are students pursuing a course in organizational behavior. Ritchie outperforms Maddox in the first exam. Maddox believes that their exam performances should not be compared as Ritchie is a psychology major while Maddox is an accounting major. Given this information, which of the following is most likely to be the reason for Maddox's reaction?


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Psychoanalysts

Professionals who practice psychoanalysis, a therapeutic technique originally developed by Freud, which aims to explore the unconscious mind to resolve conflicts and psychological problems.

Cognitive Psychologists

Researchers who focus on analyzing cognitive functions including how we perceive, remember, think, and solve problems.

Stimulus Generalization

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

Backward Conditioning

A conditioning process where a conditioning stimulus is presented after the unconditioned stimulus, often less effective in creating associations.

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