PSYCH 375 Midterm #1 Exam Questions
and Answers
Who came up with dualism? - ANSWERDescartes
Descartes famous quote - ANSWERI think, therefore I am
Dualism theory - ANSWERthe physical can be doubted, thought cannot
rationalism - ANSWERknowledge is acquired through reasoning and logic
empiricis...
aphantasia - ANSWER✔✔imageless thought -- introspectionism debate
what was behaviorism a response to? - ANSWER✔✔introspectionism
key players of behaviorism - ANSWER✔✔watson, skinner, pavlov
tenets of behaviorism - ANSWER✔✔observables
parsimony
behavior can be broken down into basic concepts
classical conditioning - ANSWER✔✔pavlov's dogs
operant conditioning - ANSWER✔✔skinner box
what did skinner believe about his boxes and operant conditioning? - ANSWER✔✔that it could explain all
behavior
what where the challenges to behaviorism - ANSWER✔✔- inability to account for all animal behavior
- inability to go from animal to human models
- inability to account for/explain abstract constructs
inability to account for all animal behavior - ANSWER✔✔critical periods
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