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1) Thomas is short, slim, and loves poetry

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1) Thomas is short, slim, and loves poetry. Is he more likely to be an Ivy League classics professor or a truck driver?

A professor because he fits the prototype of an Ivy League classics professor.

 A professor because truck drivers do not love poetry.

A professor because truck drivers are tall.

A truck driver because there are very few Ivy League classics professors but thousands of truck drivers.

2) In a double-blind study:

The experimental and the control participants do not know who is in the experimental group and who is in the control group.

The participants and the researchers do not know who is in the experimental group and who is in the control group.

There are two experimental groups.

There are two control groups.

3) The best way to learn a behavior through classical conditioning is to:

Pair the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus in a couple of trials.

Select weak conditioned stimuli.

Present the conditioned stimulus immediately after the unconditioned stimulus.

Present the conditioned stimulus immediately before the unconditioned stimulus

4) Jose wants to quit smoking. His psychologist induces a taste aversion by giving him cigarettes that taste terrible. This is an application of (a):

Operant conditioning

Classical conditioning

Shaping

Heuristic