What Inspired Noyes's Idea of Achieving Perfection

question 124

Multiple Choice

What inspired Noyes's idea of achieving perfection?

• A) Religious revivals.
• B) Jefferson's ideas on democracy.
• C) Original sin.
• D) The Enlightenment.
• E) Calvin's ideas on predestination.

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Definitions:

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning by which a stimulus that was previously neutral is paired with a conditioned stimulus to produce the same conditioned response as the original conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In biology, the end of an organism or of a group of organisms, normally a species; in psychology, the process through which a conditioned response is eliminated through repeated exposure without reinforcement.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response without prior conditioning.

American Behaviorism

A school of psychology that focuses on observable behaviors and disregards mental processes.