A Study Described in Your Textbook Showed That When Normal

question 155

Multiple Choice

A study described in your textbook showed that when normal people are malnourished for a prolonged period of time,they:

• A) gain 100 or more pounds when they go back to normal eating
• B) permanently stay thin and find it hard to gain back the weight they lost
• C) become obsessed with food, much like people with eating disorders
• D) report more positive emotions because of the positive social feedback they receive

---

Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Instinctive Drift

The phenomenon whereby an animal's learned behavior reverts to its natural instincts over time, often interfering with conditioned response training.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli based on their associations with different outcomes.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the process where a conditioned response decreases or disappears after the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.