Psychology: Learning and Behavior Quiz

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According to behaviorism, what must a behavioral activity be?

Observable and measurable

According to Aristotle, how are behavioral tendencies and abilities acquired?

Through learned experiences

Which law of association pertains to mental relationships between items close in time or space?

Law of contiguity

According to British Empiricism, where does all knowledge come from?

Experience

Which school of thought applied scientific methodology to studying consciousness?

Structuralism

Who theorized that behaviors must be adaptive and shaped by evolution?

James

Which approach to behaviorism limited investigation to observable behavior only?

Methodological behaviorism

Who emphasized the role of the cognitive 'model of the world' we build through experience as a mediator of learning?

Tolman

Who pioneered studies on operant conditioning and moved away from classical conditioning / S-R theory?

Skinner

Test your knowledge about learning and behavior in psychology with this quiz. Explore the enduring behavioral changes caused by experience and the debate around the origins of knowledge and behavior.

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