What best characterizes Tolman’s views of how psychology should be approached and studied?
a. He believed psychology should not be as tightly bound to physiology as before.
b. He was a reductionist who believed that all behavior should be understood in terms of its neural substrates.
c. He strongly supported the use of introspection as the only way to objectively study cognition.
d. He believed that nothing useful could be learned from the study of animals.
A
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A) yes B) no C) it depends on whether his sample contains a lot of heavy drug users
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A. higher level of suicidal ideation B. higher achievement C. higher anxiety D. peer-related problems
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a. true b. false
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A. makes it easier for researchers to manage large numbers of participants. B. allows researchers to learn from the lives of historically important people. C. allows researchers to ask people directly or indirectly what they think or feel. D. gives researchers a look at real behavior in the real world.