The behaviorist perspective was pioneered by ________, who first argued that psychological research should seek the laws that govern observable behavior

a. Sigmund Freud
b. John Watson
c. Mary Calkins
d. B. F. Skinner


Answer: b. John Watson

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Rogers believed that a person was more likely to become a fully functioning person if he or she

a. resolved the conflicts of the phallic stage. b. identified adequately with his or her same sex parent. c. was exposed to conditions of worth as a child. d. received ample amounts of love and acceptance from others.

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A company that markets air fresheners has a series of commercials about being “nose-blind,” that is, people getting used to odors such as those from pets or cooking pungent foods to the extent that they no longer notice them. “Nose-blindness” is actually ____

a. ?habituation b. ?classical conditioning c. ?dishabituation d. ?orienting

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Continuity is the tendency __________

a) to perceive objects, or figures, on some background. b) to complete figures that are incomplete. c) to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping. d) to perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern.

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