Although Hunter-Gatherers Work Less Than People in the United States

question 6

True/False

Although hunter-gatherers work less than people in the United States, the advent of "labor-saving" technology since the 1950s has reduced the work week for Americans by nearly one full day.

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Definitions:

Fear Conditioning

Conditioned emotional response between a neutral stimulus and an unpleasant event, such as a shock, that results in a learned association.

Amygdala

The part of the brain that participates in species-typical behaviors, emotion, and emotional memory. From the Greek word for almond, reflecting the general shape in the medial temporal lobe.

Pavlovian Conditioning

A form of learning in which a neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits a response, until the neutral stimulus alone elicits the same response.

Fear Conditioning

A behavioral paradigm in psychology where organisms learn to predict aversive events, involving the association of a neutral stimulus with an aversive stimulus.