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Ivan Pavlov founded behaviorism. T/F

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False

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Clever Hans was a horse. T/F

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True

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"Associative memory" is a conscious process. T/F

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False

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Tropism is a voluntary reflex action.T/F

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False

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Clever Hans was not as smart as a human. T/F

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True

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Who had a theory of tropisms?

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Loeb

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Watson's dissertation was on ____.

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the conscious experience of rats

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Which of the following statements best describes the change that took place in animal psychology following the work of Romanes and Morgan?

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The field became more objective as mentalistic terms were dropped from the descriptions of behavior.

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By the second decade of the 20th century, psychologists agreed on the ____.

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None of the choices are correct.

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The "last stand" of mentalistic interpretations of animal behavior was the text ____ written by ____.

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The Animal Mind; Washburn

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The particular contribution of Pavlov's work to Watson's behaviorism was Pavlov's ____.

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evidence of the feasibility of an objective psychology ***wrong objective methodology ***wrong refutation of Thorndike's law of effect ***wrong refutation of Dewey's criticisms of the reflex arc concept ***wrong refutation of the laboratory animal ***wrong

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The Animal Mind, the first textbook on comparative psychology, was written by ____.

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Margaret Washburn

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For Watson, such subject matter as mind, consciousness, and images was ____.

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meaningless for a science of psychology

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For Loeb, if an animal's response is forced by a stimulus, the ____.

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behavior requires no inferences about consciousness

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The early 20th-century Zeitgeist in science was marked by ____.

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positivism

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For Watson, introspection was ____.

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irrelevant

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Watson's approach to structuralism and functionalism was ____.

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a revolt

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The case of Clever Hans served to ____.

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illustrate the importance of objective, experimental study of animal behavior with proper control conditions

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To Thorndike, a "situation" is a stimulus. T/F

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True

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Salivating is a learned response. T/F

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False

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Pavlov believed only animals were machines, not humans. T/F

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False

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A conditioned reflex is the same thing as a conditioned response. T/F

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True

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A response is a behavior. T/F

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True

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Bekhterev ____.

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applied Pavlovian principles to the muscles

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Who first defined psychology as the study of behavior?

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Pillsbury

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Thorndike's particular contribution to behaviorism was his focus on ____.

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the experimental method

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Whose work has been described as "a shift from speculation to experimentation?"

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Pavlov

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Pavlov conducted research on ____.

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All of the choices are correct.

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Thorndike earned his Ph.D. in 1898 and after 1899 studied ____.

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human learning and mental testing only ***wrong All of the choices are correct.

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If the 1904 APA attendees been more attentive, we might today speak of ____.

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Twitmyerian conditioning

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Pavlov's conditioned reflexes require ____ for learning to occur.

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reinforcements and S-R connections

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Who could be described as an absent-minded genius?

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Pavlov

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Thorndike's revision of his law of effect stated that ____.

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punishing a response weakened a connection but not to the same degree that rewards strengthened a connection

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Angell proposed that the term consciousness had about the same life expectancy in psychology as the term ____.

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soul

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The puzzle box is traditionally associated with the work of ____.

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Thorndike

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In the typical conditioning experiment done by Pavlov, the food placed in the dog's mouth is called the ____.

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unconditioned stimulus

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Bekhterev ___.

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argued that thought processes depended upon muscle responses of the speech

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Thorndike's approach was similar to that of structuralism in his focus on ____.

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mechanism

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The first doctoral dissertation in psychology to use animal subjects was that of ____.

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Thorndike

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Which of the following statements is not true regarding Bekhterev?

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Bekhterev had a cordial relationship with Pavlov.

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Thorndike's "trial and accidental success" learning is more commonly known as ____ learning.

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trial-and-error

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Thorndike's ideas about the stamping in or stamping out of a response tendency led to his statement of ____.

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the law of effect

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Pavlov's work illustrated the study of higher mental processes in ____.

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physiological terms

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In the last half of the original Source Material from Conditioned Reflexes (1927), Pavlov discussed ____.

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Tower of...

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For Thorndike, learning is ____.

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complex associations/making connections

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Consistent with James's views, Pavlov argued that ____.

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classical conditioning was the paradigm needed for psychology to become a science ***wrong psychology was not yet a science

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