After Barely Squeezing Through Anatomy 101 with a Passing Grade

question 104

Multiple Choice

After barely squeezing through Anatomy 101 with a passing grade, you sleep 16 hours a day for the first 10 days of summer break and refuse to see any of your friends. You are in the_____  stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

• A) alarm
• B) exhaustion
• C) resistance
• D) extinction

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Definitions:

Behaviourism

A psychological approach that focuses on observable and measurable behavior as the primary basis for scientific investigation and understanding.

B F Skinner

An American psychologist known for his work in behaviorism and the development of the theory of operant conditioning.

Observable Behaviours

Actions or reactions of an individual that can be directly seen and measured.

Behaviourism

A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior and investigates how organisms learn new behaviors or modify existing ones, depending on whether events in their environments reward or punish these behaviors.