The Rewarding Property of Reinforcing Stimuli Like Food and Sex

question 60

Multiple Choice

The rewarding property of reinforcing stimuli like food and sex is believed to be related to the activity of which brain structure?

• A)hippocampus
• B)nucleus accumbens
• C)amygdala
• D)thalamus

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Definitions:

Negative Reinforcement

A process in behavior modification where the removal of an undesirable or unpleasant stimulus after a response increases the likelihood that the response will occur again in the future.

Books in Bookcase

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Behavior Modification

A method of therapy rooted in operant conditioning principles, which aims to substitute negative behaviors with positive ones using either rewards or penalties.

Classical Conditioning

The procedure of learning through continual pairing of two stimuli; a behavior that initially results from the second stimulus later results from only the first stimulus.