chapter 10

Question 1

behaviour therapy

Answer 1

application of learning principles to change maladaptive behaviour

Question 2

Early behaviorists at odds with John Watson challenged claim that reflex arc is a basic unit of behavior

Answer 2

Karl Lashley

Question 3

Learning efficiency is a function of mess of cortex

Answer 3

law of mass action

Question 4

all parts of the cortex contribute equally to learning

Answer 4

Equiptentialty

Question 5

persistent critic of John Watson formulated the instinct theory of behaviour

Answer 5

William Neobehaviorism

Question 6

Doctrine that all theoretical terms is science should be operationally defined promoted by physicist Percy Bridgman

Answer 6

operationism

Question 7

Operational definition

Answer 7

equating of the meaning of a theoretical term with the procedure used to measure it

Question 8

Edward tolman

Answer 8

founder of purposive behavior

Question 9

system that focuses on goal-directed nature of behaviour forerunner to cognitive psych

Answer 9

purposive behaviour

Question 10

The operationally defined theoretical term useful in explaining behaviour, introduced into behaviourism by Edward Tolman

Answer 10

Intervening variable

Question 11

cognitive map

Answer 11

the mental representation of set of relations that guides behaviour

Question 12

Clark Hull

Answer 12

Dominated American psych from 1940-1960 and proposed complex learning theory based on hypothetic deductive methods

Question 13

Establish postulates and then deduce conclusions that can be experimentally tested

Answer 13

hypothetico-deductive

Question 14

Reinforcement

Answer 14

strength of association between stimulus and response increases when the occurrence is followed by drive reduction

Question 15

Strength of association between stimulus and response intervening variable

Answer 15

habit strength