The Selection Effect Differs from the Protection Effect in That

question 50

Multiple Choice

The selection effect differs from the protection effect in that ________.

• A) the protection effect posits that marriage helps increase a person's health by decreasing the opportunities for risky activities
• B) the selection effect posits that it is marriage itself, and not the choice of the mate that increases a person's health
• C) the protection effect does not take the couple's health into account
• D) the selection effect entails that receiving emotional, physical, and financial support from a spouse improves one's general health

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Definitions:

Habituation

Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations.

Contiguous Occurrences

Contiguous occurrences refer to events that happen in close proximity in terms of both time and space.

Contingent Occurrences

Events that happen dependent on certain conditions or situations, often in a causal relationship.

Neutral Stimulus

A neutral stimulus is initially unrelated and unresponsive to any specific response until it becomes associated with a conditioned stimulus in classical conditioning.