PSYC 375 FINAL EXAM ACTUAL PRACTICE QUESTIONS

PSYC 375 FINAL EXAM (ACTUAL / ) PRACTICE QUESTIONS

WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+

The results of the experiment run by Tolman and Honzik in 1930

indicated that: - ---Answers---animals learned constantly, but only

translated what had been learned into behaviour when there was an incentive to do so

According to Guthrie, the association between stimuli and a/an ___ is formed in one trial. - ---Answers---movement

Who attempted to formalise Guthrie's theory? - ---Answers---both Voeks and Estes

Skinner was all of the following except -a positivist -a logical positivist -a radical behaviourist -a descriptive behaviourist - ---Answers---a logical positivist

Tolman's influence on contemporary psychology can be clearly seen in the work of the - ---Answers---information-processing psychologists h While at Harvard, Tolman learned from Holt and Perry that the ___ aspects of behaviour could be studied without sacrificing scientific objectivity - ---Answers---purposive

Masters and his colleagues argue that: - ---Answers---institutions

with token economies are unnatural and ineffective 1 / 2

Which of the following exemplifies molar behaviour?-salivating when a bell is rung -shopping for food in a grocery store -a child hiding from a stranger -both shopping for food in a grocery store and a child hiding from a stranger - ---Answers---both shopping for food in a grocery store and a child hiding from a stranger

Concerning the mind-body problem, Skinner was a(n): - ---Answers---

physical monist

All of the following were considered positive contributions of gestalt

psychology except: - ---Answers---it impacted clinical psychology

Insightful learning has several characteristics. Which one of the following is not one of the characteristics? - ---Answers---a principle gained by insight is not readily applied to other problems

According to Lewin, ___ believed that uniqueness (individual differences) was a distortion caused by external forces interfering with an organism's natural growth tendencies - ---Answers---Aristotle

When stimuli are close together, they tend to be grouped together as a

perceptual unit. This exemplifies the Gestalt principle of: - ---Answers-

--proximity

Who believed that a search for a one-to-one correspondence between a sensory event and a mental event was doomed to failure? - --- Answers---both Kant and the gestaltists

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