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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The internal thoughts and feelings that occur when we experience emotions are part of the:
a. physiological response b. expressive reaction c. objective experience d. the subjective experience
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.
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
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.