HSU Test 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Learning - ANSWERSLasting changes in behavior that result from experience
Aristotle's 3 Principles of Association - ANSWERS-Contiguity
-Similarity
-Contrast
Contiguity - ANSWERSThe more spatial or temporally proximal 2 events are, the greater ...
Learning - ANSWERSLasting changes in behavior that result from experience
Aristotle's 3 Principles of Association - ANSWERS-Contiguity
-Similarity
-Contrast
Contiguity - ANSWERSThe more spatial or temporally proximal 2 events are, the greater is the likelihood
that thinking about one event will lead to thinking about the other (bacon and eggs)
Similarity - ANSWERSThinking about one concept leads to thoughts about other/similar concepts
(dogs:wolves, dogs:pets)
Contrast - ANSWERSThinking about something often leads to thoughts about its opposite (black vs
white)
Thomas Brown's Secondary Principles of Association - ANSWERS-Coexistence
-Vividness
-Frequency
-Recency
Coexistence - ANSWERSLonger two things occur together, stronger association
Vividness - ANSWERSStrong response, easier to recall
Frequency - ANSWERSThe more often the thoughts occur together
, Recentcy - ANSWERSMore recent thoughts occur together, the more they are associated
John Locke - ANSWERS-British empiricists
-Said the mind of the newborn is tabula rasa (blank state)
Nativism - ANSWERSSome ideas are innate
Empiricism - ANSWERSAll knowledge is the result of experience
Ideas vs Sensations - ANSWERS-Sensations are feelings that results from contact with the body
-Ideas are faint replicas of the sensations that give rise to them (thoughts)
Simple vs Complex Ideas - ANSWERS-Simples ideas are associated through contiguity (imagining your
room)
-Complex ideas are formed by repeated associations of simple ideas (imagining your house)
James Mill - ANSWERSProposed difference of simple and complex ideas
I.P. Pavlov - ANSWERS-Russian Psychologist
-Discovered classic conditioning (dogs)
John B. Watson - ANSWERSBelieved psychologist must study observable behavior because he thought it
was foolish to interpret the inner workings of the mind
Thorndike's Law of Effect - ANSWERSA connection between behavior and the situation in which it occurs
(SR connection) is strengthened by the consequences of that behavior (little albert)
-Association
-Satisfying vs Annoying state of affairs
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