Psychology: Learning and Behavior Quiz
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According to behaviorism, what must a behavioral activity be?

  • Unobservable and intangible
  • Subjective and immeasurable
  • Internal and innate
  • Observable and measurable (correct)

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

  • Through learned experiences (correct)
  • Through unconscious and instinctual actions
  • Through innate and inborn traits
  • Through genetics and inheritance

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

  • Law of connection
  • Law of contiguity (correct)
  • Law of contrast
  • Law of similarity

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

<p>Experience (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which school of thought applied scientific methodology to studying consciousness?

<p>Structuralism (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>James (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which approach to behaviorism limited investigation to observable behavior only?

<p>Methodological behaviorism (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Tolman (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Skinner (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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