How Did Some Movie Theaters Support the War Effort Against

question 22

Multiple Choice

How did some movie theaters support the war effort against Germany and Japan?

• A) They showed short film biographies of American soldiers.
• B) They displayed the pictures of orphaned European children who were available for adoption.
• C) They had contests to see which patron could come closest to forecasting the date on which the war would end.
• D) They held "plasma premiers" at which patrons could donate blood to the Red Cross as the price of admission.

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Definitions:

Backward Conditioning

A paradigm in which the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) is presented and terminated prior to the conditioned stimulus (CS).

Excitatory Conditioned Response

A learned response that increases the probability of a specific behavior in anticipation of a reward or outcome.

Forward Conditioning

A type of classical conditioning where the conditioned stimulus is presented before the unconditioned stimulus, leading to an association between the two.

Rescorla-Wagner Model

A model of conditioning that emphasizes the importance of the predictability of the US by the CS, proposing a limit to the amount of learning that can occur.