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Chapter 1

• Procedural learning does not require
• an animal that can learn.
• awareness that learning has occurred.
• any training trials.
• antecedent stimuli.

ANSWER: b

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• Sarah is interested in behavior accessible to conscious reflection. In terms of learning, she is probably most

interested in

• procedural learning.
• problematic learning.
• declarative learning.
• esoteric learning.

ANSWER: c

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KEYWORDS: Concept

• Which of the following most correctly states Descartes’ position on human and animal behavior?
• Human behavior is governed by free will; animal behavior is governed by reflexes.
• A few human and animal behaviors are governed by free will; most are governed by reflexes.
• Voluntary human behaviors are governed by free will; involuntary human behaviors and all animal behaviors

are governed by reflexes.

• All human and animal behaviors can be explained by reflex mechanisms.

ANSWER: c

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KEYWORDS: Concept

• According to Descartes, what is the difference between human and animal behaviors?
• Humans can perform voluntary behaviors; animals can perform only involuntary behaviors.
• Humans respond to environmental stimuli; animals only behave reflexively.
• Human reflexes are voluntary; animal reflexes are involuntary.
• Human behavior is explainable by natural laws; animal behavior is unpredictable.

ANSWER: a

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KEYWORDS: Concept 1 / 4

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• The philosophical tenet that some of the content of the human mind is innate is called
• dualism.
• nativism.
• empiricism.
• reflexism.

ANSWER: b

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• Nativist and empiricist philosophies differ in beliefs of
• the contents, but not the mechanisms, of the human mind.
• the contents and mechanisms of the human mind only at birth.
• the contents and mechanisms of the human mind.
• the mechanisms, but not the contents, of the human mind.

ANSWER: c

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KEYWORDS: Concept

• John Locke believed that
• the human mind was unpredictable and governed by free will.
• the ideas humans had were acquired directly or indirectly after birth.
• nativism best described human cognition.
• rules of association did not explain human behavior.

ANSWER: b

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• According to Thomas Hobbes,
• reflexes were predictable; the mind was not.
• the mind was predictable; responses to environmental cues were not.
• neither the operations of the mind nor reflexes were predictable.
• both reflexes and the operations of the mind were predictable.

ANSWER: d

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KEYWORDS: Fact 2 / 4

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• The concept of hedonism as the control for voluntary behavior was proposed by which philosopher?
• Aristotle
• Locke
• Hobbes
• Brown

ANSWER: c

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• The British empiricists believed that complex ideas are
• sense experiences.
• present at birth.
• the product of simple sensations combined by association.
• simple reflex responses.

ANSWER: c

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• Which of the following is not a primary rule of association?
• contingency
• contiguity
• similarity
• contrast

ANSWER: a

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• Of the primary rules of association, which has been most prominent in considerations of associations?
• similarity
• contingency
• contrast
• contiguity

ANSWER: d

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KEYWORDS: Fact 3 / 4

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• All of the following are true of British empiricists except
• they believed that ideas were based on associations of simple sensory events.
• they conducted experiments to test the rules of association.
• they held that the mind was a blank slate at birth.
• they thought that sense experiences were the basis of knowledge.

ANSWER: b

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• Hermann Ebbinghaus
• was the first to empirically test the rules of association.
• demonstrated that separate nerves carry sensory and motor information.
• set forth the secondary rules of association.
• showed that irritation of a nerve was sufficient to produce a muscle contraction.

ANSWER: a

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• John Swammerdam’s contribution to the study of reflexes was to show that
• muscle contractions were not produced by an infusion of gas.
• mechanical irritation of a nerve produced a muscle contraction.
• nerves are hollow tubes.
• separate nerves are involved in sensory and motor transmission.

ANSWER: b

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KEYWORDS: Fact

• The finding that gas infusions are not the cause of muscle contractions is best attributed to which of the following

researchers?

• René Descartes
• Charles Bell
• Francois Magendie
• Francis Glisson

ANSWER: d

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KEYWORDS: Fact

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