Miranda Is Questioning Whether Her Upcoming Business Trip, Where She

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Multiple Choice

Miranda is questioning whether her upcoming business trip, where she must travel through an area with many mountains, will pose a danger for her. As such, this example illustrates ________.

• A) a stress reaction
• B) coping
• C) primary appraisal
• D) secondary appraisal

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Definitions:

Secondary Reinforcement

A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer, such as praise, tokens, or money.

Operant Conditioning

A technique in education where the potency of an action is transformed by the use of encouragements or punishments.

Classical Conditioning

A behavioral conditioning process where the continual pairing of two stimuli results in the first stimulus eventually eliciting a reaction initially brought about by the second stimulus.

Fixed-interval

In operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement where the first response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed.