PSYCH 322: Exam 1 Past Exam
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (reupdated 2025) What is behavior - Correct Answers ✅is an observable action that can be measured may be internal/ external What is learning? - Correct Answers ✅a permanent change in behavior caused by experience The kind of conditioning involves the arrangement of an involuntary behavior - Correct Answers ✅Classical conditioning Respondent behavior Pavlovian behavior this kind of conditioning involves a behavior followed by a stimulus that changes the future likelihood of engaging in that behavior. - Correct Answers ✅Operant conditioning Empiricism or nativism? Skills and knowledge are largely inborn - Correct Answers ✅Nativism Empiricism or nativism? Nurture, or life experiences, play a larger role in who a person is than does nature, or heredity. - Correct Answers ✅Empiricism 1 / 3
PSYCH 322: Exam 1 Past Exam
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (reupdated 2025) Popularized by Descartes, the idea that some behaviors are reflexes while others are a result of our free-will - Correct Answers ✅Mind Body Dualism Structuralists, and to a lesser extent functionalists, both used this method of analyzing one's own conscious experience. - Correct Answers ✅Introspection The theory, closely aligned with biology, was one of the reasons psychologists began studying animals to learn about behavior. - Correct Answers ✅Theory of Evolution List two ways John Watson's behaviorism was separate from the schools of thought that came before it - Correct Answers ✅- focused less on introspection, more on observable behavior
- nurture over nature
- psychology as a natural science
- increased use of animals
Name one other behaviorist (i.e not Watson), and their school of behaviorism - Correct Answers ✅Bandura- Social Learning B.F. Skinner- Radical Behaviorism 2 / 3
PSYCH 322: Exam 1 Past Exam
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (reupdated 2025) What is B.F. Skinner's school of behaviorism called? - Correct Answers ✅B.F. Skinner- Radical Behaviorism What is one similarity and one difference between Skinner's treatment of internal events and Watson's? - Correct Answers ✅- both rejected internal events as a cause
- Skinner considered private events as a science
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What is one term Skinner used for internal events? - Correct Answers ✅Covert behaviors, private behaviors What is the term your book uses to describe changing environment variables to change your own behavior? - Correct Answers ✅Counter control How would Skinner describe why a rat runs a maze? - Correct Answers ✅in the past running a maze was followed by food past consequences effect current behavior Skinner was more/less interested in genetic factors determining behavior than was Watson. - Correct Answers ✅more For skinner, what is the ultimate cause of behavior? - Correct Answers ✅environmental influences