If You Wanted Your Best Friend to Spend Less Time

question 2

Multiple Choice

If you wanted your best friend to spend less time talking about her boyfriend, you might leave every time she started talking about him, saying that you just remembered that you had to be somewhere.In the framework of operant conditioning, your frowning would be:

• A)positive reinforcement
• B)positive punishment
• C)negative reinforcement
• D)negative punishment

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Definitions:

Ancestral Memory

The theory that individuals inherit memories and experiences of their ancestors.

Preconscious

Refers to the part of the mind that contains thoughts, memories, and feelings that are not currently in conscious awareness but can easily be brought to consciousness.

Genital Stage

A stage of psychosexual development in Freudian theory occurring from puberty onwards, focused on mature sexual intimacy and relationships.

Phallic Stage

A Freudian concept referring to a stage of psychosexual development, typically occurring between the ages of three and six, where children's focus of pleasure is on the genital organs.