Exam 11: Behaviorism 1892-1956

Explain how Watson criticized introspective psychology on empirical, philosophical and practical grounds?

According to the text, the central problem of scientific psychology in the twentieth century is:

The animal psychologists Robert Yerkes struggled with the problem of consciousness and came up with three grades or levels that correspond to behavior. Form lowest to highest these levels were:

What did the philosopher Gilbert Ryle mean when he attacked the dogma of the "Ghost in the Machine" begun by Descartes. Briefly describe Wittgenstein's criticisms of psychology, and sketch what he would have psychologists do instead.

How did the Neo-Hullians admit cognitive processes into behavior theory without giving up the rigor of S-R formulations? In other words, explain the concept of mediation.

Thorndike proposed that two laws account for all behavior, no matter how complex. Which one of the following is one of these laws?

According to Watson, the main reason mentalistic psychology had failed to become a natural science was that it:

Watson faulted introspection on three grounds. One of which was:

Thorndike's S-R connectionism was based on animal learning and then extended to human learning. Yet, Thorndike like later behaviorists was haunted by a problem. The problem was?

When Watson proclaimed his vision for psychology and that vision was behaviorism, it:

Radical behaviorism is based on the older philosophical system of:

Thorndike proposed that two laws account for all behavior, no matter how complex. Which one of the following is one of these laws?

According to Watson a child's attachment to its mother is:

Which of the following sentence completions is NOT an example of an operational definition of "anxiety?" Anxiety may be operationally defined as:

According to Gilbert Ryle, the mistake of Cartesian dualism is to think that:

The concept of mediation was introduced to S-R theory in order to:

When a rat learns a maze Clark Hull said it acquires:

Imagine an experiment by Tolman in which he measures how fast Norwegian rats run down a runway for different sizes of food pellets. Using Tolman's ideas, match the description of the independent variable to one of the terms listed below from the experiment:

In an operational definition, a theoretical term is defined by:

Skinner argued that Freud's great discovery was that human behavior has unconscious causes but Freud's great mistake was _______.