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1. Which of the following statements about behaviorism is FALSE?

A. It claimed that biological drives determine human behavior.

2. Which of the following statements is LEAST likely to be made by a behaviorist who accepts the ideas of B. F. Skinner?

B. I asked her out because I like her.

3. If a bell is paired with food on enough occasions, a dog will begin to salivate to the bell just as it does to food. This example BEST illustrates which of the following concepts?

A. associationism

4. According to the evolutionary approach, which of the following would be the best explanation of why males are much more likely than females to develop fetishism?

B. Males seem to have been naturally selected to be more easily aroused sexually by many stimuli.

5. Early associationists in psychology, such as E. B. Titchener, believed that human behavior is

D. determined by the pairing of events.

6. Some early psychologists, such as William James, studied the functions of the mind rather than its structure. In which of the following ways did this functional approach influence modern psychology?

B. Psychological research often focuses on understanding how the mind helps us to adapt to everyday demands.

7. One major problem with studying what is in people's minds is that such research often must rely upon the technique of

C. introspection.

8. Which of the following theoretical approaches would be most likely to assume that personality is completely learned?

A. the behavioristic approach

9. Which of the following statements about behaviorism is TRUE?

C. It focuses on environmental, rather than mental, causes of behavior.

10. According to the behavioristic approach, the most important applied goal(s) of experimental psychology, is(are)

B. predicting and modifying behaviors.

11. The idea that humans learn in a machine-like manner was believed by

A. associationists.

12. Which of the following statements about behaviorism is TRUE?

D. Its assumes that behavior is completely determined by prior causes.

13. Psychoanalysts state that dreams are expressions of unconscious conflicts. They often discover patients' unconscious conflicts by interpreting their dreams. The problem is that, it is impossible to tell if their interpretations are correct because we don't have direct access to the unconscious. In this case, the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams in terms of unconscious conflicts is

D. not verifiable.

14. Which of the following research techniques has been criticized as being too subjective?

C. introspection

15. Early psychologists who were interested in understanding the functions (rather than the structures) of the mind were MOST influenced in their approach by

B. evolutionary biology.

16. What was it about the definition of psychology proposed by early behaviorists that made it such a radical change from previous definitions of psychology?

A. It required that psychologists should give up their attempts to understand consciousness.

17. Behaviorists believed that the results of their studies with rats and pigeons could say something important about learning in any species because they assumed that

B. any biological differences that might exist among species did not involve differences in learning.

18. Behaviorists argued that the major cause of behavior is

D. environmental events.

19. The doctrine that states that complex mental experience is formed by a passive and automatic combination of simple elements of the mind is known as

D. associationism.

20. If one is both a materialist and a determinist, one believes that every event in the universe is

B. caused by some set of preceding physical events.

21. With which of the following statements would a behaviorist agree?

D. Free will is an illusion.

22. B. F. Skinner argued that

A. there are no mental causes of behavior.

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