11. Skinner’s former students demonstrated which of the following with the advent of the IQ Zoo?
a. Operant conditioning can be taken out of the lab and applied to the real world.
b. Behaviorism is a very lucrative business after receiving a Ph.D. from Skinner.
c. Animals, like humans, are intelligent and have vastly complex minds.
d. Behaviorism is useless to solving real-world problems.
e. There are many hardships associated with animal psychology.
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The IQ Zoo
A history of modern psychology
12. Watson’s behaviorism ____.
a. transformed psychology overnight
b. was the first stage in the evolution of the behavioral school of thought
c. was essentially the same as neobehaviorism
d. lead directly to the cognitive revolution
e. eventually was abandoned by psychology
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Three Stages of Behaviorism
13. The era of neobehaviorism consisted of the years ____.
a. 1913-1958
b. 1925-1938
c. 1930-1960
d. 1930-1990
e. 1904-1990
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Three Stages of Behaviorism
NOTES: WWW
14. The dominant area of study for the neobehaviorists was ____.
a. perception
b. the neurophysiology of the brain
c. learning
d. unconscious mental processes
e. None of the choices are correct.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Three Stages of Behaviorism
15. A point on which the neobehaviorists agreed AND to which they gave much more emphasis than did Watson was ____.
a. the importance of human subjects
b. learning and conditioning as the crux of the science of psychology
c. operationism
d. positivism
e. the rejection of the concept of consciousness
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Operationism
16. Operationism was ____.
a. a major characteristic of neobehaviorism
b. intended to rid psychology of pseudo-problems
c. intended to make the language of science more objective and precise
d. All of the choices are correct.
e. None of the choices are correct.
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Operationism
17. Operationism was formulated by ____.
a. John B. Watson
b. B.F. Skinner
c. Percy Bridgman
d. Edward Tolman
e. Clark Hull
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Operationism
18. Operationism means that a concept ____.
a. must be defined in logical terms
b. is synonymous with its methods of measurement
c. must be mathematical
d. operates to control human mental processes
e. All of the choices are correct.
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Operationism
NOTES: WWW
19. The idea that a concept is the same as the corresponding set of procedures to measure it is called ____.
a. positivism
b. science
c. operationism
d. mechanism
e. determinism
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Operationism
20. If we define consciousness in terms of EEG output, then the construct of consciousness is ____.
a. acceptable to materialists
b. acceptable to operationists
c. still a metaphysical construct
d. still lacks epistemological meaningfulness
e. inappropriate
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Operationism
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