Professor Srinivasan is a psychologist, yet does not study cognition, thoughts, or feelings because she claims that they are not rooted in observable behavior. Professor Srinivasan is most likely a

a. Gestalt psychologist.
b. personality psychologist.
c. clinician.
d. behaviorist.


Answer: D

Psychology

You might also like to view...

Give examples of qualitative and quantitative changes is physical development

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Which of the following examples best represents the use of an interval scale?

A. measuring the number of cookie boxes sold by scouts on the west coast of a town versus those sold on the east coast of the town B. ranking the participants of a race based on their performance C. assessing students' ratings of their professors' performance on a five-point scale ranging from poor to excellent D. naming the different car brands seen in a school's parking lot

Psychology

A fear-based appeal would be most UNSUCCESSFUL when:

a. people are so afraid of the message that they feel too hopeless to act. b. the appeal puts the audience on the defensive. c. they attempt to prevent a negative outcome. d. either people are so afraid of the message that they feel too hopeless to act or when the appeal puts the audience on the defensive.

Psychology

A group of rats was run through a maze for 12 days. On days 1 through 10, there was no food reward at the end of the maze, and the rats made many errors as they slowly moved through the maze. On day 11, a food reward was placed at the end of the maze. After the food reward was introduced, the rats ran the maze very quickly and with few errors. According to psychologist _____, this experiment demonstrated a phenomenon called _____.

a. B. F. Skinner; stimulus discrimination b. Edward L. Thorndike; the Law of Effect c. Albert Bandura; observational learning d. Edward C. Tolman; latent learning

Psychology