Who were the primary figures associated with the school of Behaviorism?

Correct answer: John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner

Explanation

This question assesses the student's knowledge of the key historical figures associated with one of the major schools of psychology, Behaviorism.

Other questions

Question 1

What is the term for the tendency to believe, after learning about an outcome, that one would have been able to predict it beforehand?

Question 2

In the study on unconscious preferences for tea names reported in the Journal of Consumer Research, what percentage of participants chose the tea that included the first three letters of their own name?

Question 3

Which level of explanation in psychology is most closely tied to biological influences like genes, neurons, and hormones?

Question 4

The concept that behavior is produced by many factors, which may occur at different levels of explanation, is known as what?

Question 5

Which school of psychology used the method of introspection to identify the basic elements of psychological experience?

Question 7

The question of whether genes or environment are more influential in determining individual behavior is known as the what debate?

Question 8

According to the text, what is the approximate heritability of intelligence?

Question 9

Which early philosopher argued that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn, taking the 'nature' side of the debate?

Question 10

The school of functionalism was heavily influenced by the theory of natural selection proposed by which scientist?

Question 11

What is the term for the branch of psychology that applies the Darwinian theory of natural selection to human and animal behavior?

Question 12

In the context of evolutionary psychology, what does the term 'fitness' refer to?

Question 13

Which school of psychology is most associated with the work of Sigmund Freud and focuses on unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories?

Question 14

Behaviorism is based on the premise that it is not possible to objectively study what?

Question 15

In the study where neuroscientists predicted a participant's button press, how long before the participant was aware of their decision could the researchers detect predictive brain activation?

Question 16

What field of psychology studies mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, and judgment?

Question 17

What are social norms, according to the social-cultural approach to psychology?

Question 18

Western cultures are described as being primarily oriented toward what concept, which values the self and independence?

Question 19

Which career path in psychology focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, causes, and treatment of mental disorders?

Question 20

The learning principle where studying material in several shorter periods over time is more effective than one long period is known as the?

Question 21

What is the term for our ability to adequately assess our own knowledge?

Question 22

Which statement best describes the difference between facts and values in the context of scientific research?

Question 23

Sir Frederic Bartlett's research, where participants had difficulty recalling unusual stories exactly, was used to hypothesize what about memory?

Question 24

The use of neuroimaging techniques like fMRI has given more life to which modern school of psychology?

Question 25

What did the first research psychologists, Wilhelm Wundt and William James, have in common that distinguished them from earlier philosophers?

Question 26

Which psychological perspective is primarily concerned with how social situations and cultures influence thinking and behavior?

Question 27

Edward Titchener, a student of Wundt, and his students claimed to have identified more than how many sensations through introspection?

Question 28

One of the key limitations of structuralism discovered by the structuralists themselves was that highly trained participants could not accurately report on what?

Question 29

The 'black box' is a metaphor used by which school of psychology to describe the human mind?

Question 30

Which psychological principle is demonstrated by William James's statement, 'My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing'?

Question 31

The research on 'Little Albert' by John B. Watson, where a child was conditioned to fear a white rat, is a classic example from which school of psychology?

Question 32

What is the primary focus of Biopsychology and neuroscience as a career path?

Question 33

What does the 'self-reference effect' suggest is the best way to learn information?

Question 34

Why do psychologists rely on empirical methods?

Question 35

What is the highest level of explanation in psychology concerned with?

Question 36

The term for variations among people on physical or psychological dimensions, such as intelligence or anxiety, is known as what?

Question 37

What did René Descartes believe was the role of the pineal gland?

Question 38

What was the primary goal of Wilhelm Wundt's school of structuralism?

Question 39

The psychodynamic process of helping a patient remember unconscious drives through talk therapy and dream analysis is called what?

Question 40

In addition to Sigmund Freud, who is NOT listed in the text as an influential psychologist who extended his ideas?

Question 41

What is the core argument of behaviorists regarding free will?

Question 42

The analogy between the brain and the computer provided impetus for which new school of psychology in the 1960s?

Question 43

What is the primary difference identified in the text between social norms in Western cultures and East Asian cultures?

Question 44

Which subdiscipline of psychology would be most likely to study how to design equipment to improve employee performance and reduce accidents?

Question 45

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of what?

Question 46

What is the primary message of the study where students were told that 'opposites attract' versus 'birds of a feather flock together'?

Question 47

When studying depression, investigating how chemicals in the brain influence the experience of depression corresponds to which level of explanation?

Question 48

Aristotle's belief that each child is born as a 'tabula rasa' aligns with which side of a major psychological debate?

Question 49

What is the primary contribution of structuralism to the science of psychology, according to the text?

Question 50

What does the text identify as a significant problem with testing evolutionary psychology theories?