INTRODUCTION TO LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR
CHAPTER 13 COMPREHENSIVE SOLVED
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS
◉ Behavior.
Answer: A specific, measurable, and observable activity
◉ Behaviorism.
Answer: A natural science approach to psychology that traditionally
focuses on the study of environmental influences on observable
behavior
◉ British Empiricism.
Answer: A philosophical school of thought that maintains that
almost all knowledge is a function of experience -believe mind is
composed of a finite set of basic principles that are comined by
association into complex thoughts
◉ Cognitive behaviorism.
Answer: A brand of behaviorism that utilizes intervening variables,
usually in the form of hypothesized cognitive processes, to help
explain behavior. -"Perposive Behaviorism"
,◉ Cognitive map.
Answer: The mental representation of one's spatial surroundings
◉ Countercontrol.
Answer: The deliberate manipulation of environmenal events to
alter their impact on our behavior
◉ Empiricism.
Answer: The assumption that behavior patterns are mostly learned
rather that inherited -"Nurture Perspective"
◉ Evolutionary adaptation.
Answer: An inherited trait that bas been shaped through natural
selection
◉ Functionalism.
Answer: Proposes that the mind evolved to help us adapt to the
world around us and that the focus of Psychology should be the
study of those adaptive processes
◉ Introspection.
Answer: The attempt to accurately describe one's conscious
thoughts, emotions, and sensory experiences
, ◉ Latent Learning.
Answer: Learning that occurs in the absence of any obversable
indication of learning and only becomes apparent later
◉ Law of Contiguity.
Answer: A law of association in which events that occur in close
proximity to each other in time or space are readily associated with
each other
◉ Law of contrast.
Answer: A law of association in which events that are opposite from
each other are readily associated with each other
◉ Law of frequency.
Answer: A law of association in which the more frequenty two items
occur together, the more strongly they are associated with each
other
◉ Law of similarity.
Answer: A law of association in which events that are similar to each
other are readily associated with each other
◉ Learning.
CHAPTER 13 COMPREHENSIVE SOLVED
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS
◉ Behavior.
Answer: A specific, measurable, and observable activity
◉ Behaviorism.
Answer: A natural science approach to psychology that traditionally
focuses on the study of environmental influences on observable
behavior
◉ British Empiricism.
Answer: A philosophical school of thought that maintains that
almost all knowledge is a function of experience -believe mind is
composed of a finite set of basic principles that are comined by
association into complex thoughts
◉ Cognitive behaviorism.
Answer: A brand of behaviorism that utilizes intervening variables,
usually in the form of hypothesized cognitive processes, to help
explain behavior. -"Perposive Behaviorism"
,◉ Cognitive map.
Answer: The mental representation of one's spatial surroundings
◉ Countercontrol.
Answer: The deliberate manipulation of environmenal events to
alter their impact on our behavior
◉ Empiricism.
Answer: The assumption that behavior patterns are mostly learned
rather that inherited -"Nurture Perspective"
◉ Evolutionary adaptation.
Answer: An inherited trait that bas been shaped through natural
selection
◉ Functionalism.
Answer: Proposes that the mind evolved to help us adapt to the
world around us and that the focus of Psychology should be the
study of those adaptive processes
◉ Introspection.
Answer: The attempt to accurately describe one's conscious
thoughts, emotions, and sensory experiences
, ◉ Latent Learning.
Answer: Learning that occurs in the absence of any obversable
indication of learning and only becomes apparent later
◉ Law of Contiguity.
Answer: A law of association in which events that occur in close
proximity to each other in time or space are readily associated with
each other
◉ Law of contrast.
Answer: A law of association in which events that are opposite from
each other are readily associated with each other
◉ Law of frequency.
Answer: A law of association in which the more frequenty two items
occur together, the more strongly they are associated with each
other
◉ Law of similarity.
Answer: A law of association in which events that are similar to each
other are readily associated with each other
◉ Learning.
