One difference between functionalism and structuralism was that ______.
a. functionalists emphasized laboratory experimentation more than structuralists
b. functionalists wanted to study whole organisms in real-life tasks
c. structuralists were more interested in habit formation
d. functionalists wanted to study only observable behaviors
b. functionalists wanted to study whole organisms in real-life tasks
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Watson and Skinner had one objective in common, which was the
a. treatment of disorders. b. explanation of behavior through conditioning/reinforcement. c. use of mental imagery. d. discovery of unconscious conflicts.
The term reinforcement was preferred over the term reward because Skinner believed that the latter suggested
a. we can only measure what we observe. b. mental processes were involved in learning. c. somehow the animal would prefer a reward to a reinforcement. d. only observable behavior should be measured in learning trials.
Which researcher is responsible for proposing the idea that dreams are responsible for helping to establish neural memory networks?
a) Reiser b) Hobson c) McCarley d) Freud
Approximately _____% of the scores in a normal distribution fall farther than 2 standard deviation units from the mean
a. 5 c. 70 b. 50 d. 95