The evolutionary approach explains behavior and mental processes by focusing on:
a. unconscious factors c. learned behavior
b. adaptation and natural selection d. biological influences
B
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Eight-month-old Wilhelm makes minor changes in his schema each time his environment provides him with a new experience. What does this process represent?
A. accommodation B. reflexive responding C. assimilation D. secondary circular reactions
Dr. Peck wishes to operantly condition a pigeon to pick a black card out of a set of white cards. To ensure that Peck's pigeon picks the proper card, the reinforcer must:
A. precede the desired behavior B. occur at the same time as the desired behavior C. become a predictor for the desired behavior D. follow the desired behavior
A collection of personal attitudes and values marked by rigidity, inhibition, prejudice, oversimplification, and ethnocentrism describes the __________ personality
a. antisocial b. socially-distant c. Type A d. authoritarian
The trichromatic theory explains how:
a. we experience an afterimage b. the brain changes light waves into color c. cones in the retina change light waves into colors d. rods in the retina change light waves into colors