chapter 10

Question 1

behaviorist manifesto

Answer 1

paper that argued for behaviorist approach to psychology

Question 2

positivism

Answer 2

only certain knowledge is obtained through publicly observed events

Question 3

replication

Answer 3

repeating an experiemnt to judge its validity

Question 4

unconditioned reflex

Answer 4

stimulus response condition that isnt learned ( food-salivate)

Question 5

unconditioned stimulus

Answer 5

any stimulus that will produce a specific reflex response (food –> elicts saliva)

Question 6

conditional stimulus

Answer 6

conditioning that will be paried with an unconditioned stimulus to produce a conditioned response (tone)

Question 7

conditional reflex

Answer 7

outcome of conditioning by pairing a conditioned stimulus (tone) with an unconditioned stimulus (food) , the conditioned stimulus eventually elicits a conditioned response to reflex

Question 8

generalization

Answer 8

the tendency for a response learned to one stimuli to occur to a second stimuli similar to the first

Question 9

experiemental neurosis

Answer 9

emotional response that occurs after training discrimination between two stimuli and then making the stimuli too similar to discriminate

Question 10

systematic desensitization

Answer 10

fear response is replaced by an incompatible response