Exam 14: Other Behavioral Psychologies

_____ is the belief that a concept is without meaning unless it is explicitly verifiable. Proponents of this View hoped for a unified science devoid of ambiguous and meaningless metaphysical concepts.

Tolman differed from Hull, Skinner, and Guthrie because his system reflected his belief that human and animal Behavior is

____________ was not only a determinist; he argued that the theory of free will is counterproductive to Behavioral science and to society at large.

The expression intervening variable refers to

Which of the following topics provided the foundation for behavioral psychologies?

There is only one law of learning and that is that law of contiguity. Who would embrace this position?

Edwin Ray Guthrie's attitude toward the application of learning theory

The term Mass Action, in the work of Karl Spencer Lashley, refers to

Which of the following emphasized the idea that learning occurs in a single trial?

__________ preferred the term anthroponomy to Psychology, but is best remembered for his early work on The delayed reaction test as a way to compare the problem solving abilities of various species.

Which of the following, according to the text, is the most important bridge between classical behaviorism and Contemporary psychology?

______ postulated that learned responses to stimuli do not become weaker due to the passage of time, but rather as the result of learning new responses to old stimuli.

Skinner chose to primarily study the type of behavior he called _____ instead of _____, the type of behavior Studied by Watson and Pavlov.

Hull accounted for the permanent extinction of a response with his concept of

Tolman's experiments on _________________ called attention to the important distinction between performance and learning.

According to the text, which of the following is not an example of B. F. Skinner's applied research?

Karl Lashley's data suggested that the brain functions in terms of

_____ investigated delayed reactions in children and animals and was one of the first to study the human-machine problem

_________ preceded Watson in declaring that psychology should be a positive science concerned with Conduct. However, because he championed so many unpopular causes (Lamarckianism, Extra Sensory Perception, teleology), his views were never widely accepted.

Operationism refers to