History of Psychology, 3e | Student Quiz 12

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Question 1:

As indicated in Guthrie’s research, what is another terms for ‘signals’?
a) Indicators
b) Gestures
c) Cues
d) Pointers

Question 2:

How did Guthrie describe rewards?
a) They act to allow an animal to learn the association formed just after the reward
b) They act to prevent an animal from unlearning the association formed just before the reward
c) They act to prevent an animal from unlearning the association formed just after the reward
d) They act to allow an animal to learn the association formed just before the reward

Question 3:

Hull was a proponent of ________ and an opponent of ________.
a) the Gestalt approach; psychoanalysis
b) psychoanalysis; the Gestalt approach
c) the Gestalt approach; conditioning
d) conditioning; the Gestalt approach

Question 4:

Who originated the concept of intervening variables?
a) Tolman
b) Hall
c) Hull
d) Hebb

Question 5:

What term describes a stimulus that initially has no reinforcing properties but acquires them through association with a reinforcing stimulus?
a) Primary reinforcer
b) Secondary reinforcer
c) Tertiary reinforcer
d) Habit strength

Question 6:

What technique asks you to rate a person, thing, or event on a set of seven-point bipolar scales?
a) Modelling
b) Behaviour modification
c) Semantic differential
d) Systematic desensitization

Question 7:

________ conducted research very differently from the way philosophers of science say research should be done.
a) Bandura
b) Osgood
c) Spence
d) Tolman

Question 8:

Studies of ________ learning were concerned with uncovering the basic laws of the formation of associations in humans.
a) behavioural
b) functional
c) verbal
d) drive

Question 9:

Where did Hebb spent the majority of his career?
a) McGill
b) Toronto
c) Alberta
d) Harvard

Question 10:

Hebb’s theory did not include aspects from ________.
a) psychoanalysis
b) learning theory
c) Gestalt psychology
d) neurophysiology

Question 11:

The phantom limb phenomenon illustrates the way ________ represent our experience.
a) phase sequences
b) cell assemblies
c) motivation
d) perceptual isolation

Question 12:

What term did Hebb prefer to use for his experiments conducted in the 1950s?
a) Brainwashing
b) Perceptual isolation
c) Sensory deprivation
d) Purposive behaviourism

Question 13:

It was after reading ________’s book that Sperry began to focus on the mind-brain problem?
a) Guthrie
b) Bandura
c) Hebb
d) James

Question 14:

Following Bandura’s work, ________ takes place through a process called ________.
a) social learning; modelling
b) observational learning; modelling
c) modelling; social learning
d) modelling; observational learning

Question 15:

Who addressed the concept of reciprocal determinism in their research?
a) Bower
b) Bandura
c) Hebb
d) Sperry

Question 16:

Hilgard’s theory of learning had one principle at its core: contiguity.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Guthrie argued that repetition provides the opportunity for additional stimuli to become associated with a response.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Like so many other psychologists, Hull entered the discipline because he read Wilhem Wundt.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Hullian theory consists of postulates that are intended to describe the basic laws of behaviour.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Mediating processes in humans are often associated with words.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

Tolman converted to Gestalt psychology in 1914 while still a graduate student at Harvard.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Tolman’s approach is called ‘purposive behaviourism’ because Tolman tried to explain molar behaviour.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Calkins invented the memory drum to use when studying paired associates.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Sperry was interested in understanding how cognitive neuropsychological processes are related to motivational processes.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

Behaviour modification originated with Bandura.
a) True
b) False

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History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 12