Midterm 1

Question 1

What does response contingency mean?

Answer 1

There is some relationship between the subject’s response and what happens to it

Question 2

What is the S-R Approach?

Answer 2

he “stimulus-response” approach and is based on the premise of Contiguity, which states, for learning to occur, the response must occur in the presence of or very soon after a stimulus is presented, or an association will not occur.

Question 3

What was the procedure of Watson & Rayner 1920?

Answer 3

• “Little” Albert, 9 months saw a white rat and heard a loud noise at the same time
• Learned to associate the two

Question 4

What were the results of Watson & Rayner 1920?

Answer 4

-Little Albert would cry and crawl away whenever he saw a white rat and also exhibited a fear response to all white and furry objects including Watson in a white beard and Rayner’s lab coat

Question 5

Criticism of Watson & Rayner 1920

Answer 5

• Extremely unethical

- No tightly controlled methodology

Question 6

Watson was the father of __________, a response to ___________ ___________

Answer 6

Watson was the founder of behaviorism, a response to structuralism

Question 7

What is the main methodological modality of structural psychology?

Answer 7

introspection