test 1

Question 1

understanding learning means understanding how to educate

Answer 1

education

Question 2

psychological change only occurs through…

Answer 2

maturation and learning

Question 3

Maturation is controlled by…

Answer 3

genetics

Question 4

Ideas are the only (or most) real things, and the

material world is fully (or at least partly) doubtful.

Answer 4

Idealism

Question 5

The material world is the only real thing, and

ideas are more or less doubtful reflections of the material

Answer 5

Materialism

Question 6

Plato was what type of philosopher

Answer 6

believed in idealism

Question 7

Aristotle was what type of philosopher

Answer 7

believed in materialism

Question 8

descartes was what type of philosopher

Answer 8

believed in dualism

Question 9

John Locke was what tyoe of philosopher

Answer 9

believed in materialism

Question 10

Who said learning was performance

Answer 10

watson and Skinner

Question 11

a collection of related statements that summarize and explain a set of observations

Answer 11

theory

Question 12

what we see when we look at the world

Answer 12

observations

Question 13

If-then like statements that are usually (but not

always) accurate

Answer 13

Principle

Question 14

Statements that people privately hold to be true

Answer 14

Beliefs

Question 15

human capacity to explain and predict the behavior and mental state of other people.

Answer 15

folk psychology

Question 16

1) Make an observation
2) Develop a theory that explains the observation
3) Make a hypothesis that will test the theory in a new way
4) Test the hypothesis

Answer 16

scientific method

Question 17

People who know they are being tested may act differently than they usually would.

Answer 17

Subject bias

Question 18

scientific psycholoy is based on….

Answer 18

materialism

Question 19

why was Pavlov’s theory called classical

Answer 19

it was the first well-researched theory

Question 20

Nature vs. Nurture was from who…

Answer 20

Watson’s theory

Question 21

What is Guthrie’s theory

Answer 21

learning is one shot not gradual

Question 22

What are the three methods of breaking habits?

Answer 22

fatigue, threshold, and incompatible stimuli

Question 23

Which theorist talked about ‘insight’

Answer 23

Thorndike

Question 24

What kind of theorist was Thorndike

Answer 24

contiguity theoriest