Five-Year-Old Sandrine Jumps and Cringes Every Time She Hears Thunder

question 66

Multiple Choice

Five-year-old Sandrine jumps and cringes every time she hears thunder.Soon she cringes when she sees lightning because she knows that thunder will follow.One day when she is at her first fireworks show,she cringes when she sees the flash of light from the first fireworks in the sky.Sandrine is displaying ____.

• A) reconditioning
• B) spontaneous recovery
• C) stimulus generalization
• D) stimulus discrimination

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Definitions:

Social Loafing

The phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone.

Social Facilitation

The tendency for individuals to perform differently when in the presence of others than when alone, usually showing improvement in tasks they find easy or have well-rehearsed.

Normative Social Influence

The impact of others that causes us to change our behavior to gain their approval and acceptance.

Informational Social Influence

The process of changing one’s behavior to align with the group's, based on the belief that the group possesses accurate information.