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

A. It argued that mental events should be the focus of research.
B. It had two major goals: the prediction and control of behavior.
C. It studied environmental causes of behavior.
D. It assumed that reflexes were important explanations of behavior.

2. 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
B. mentalism
C. introspectionism
D. behaviorism

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

A. It claims that the human mind is similar to that of other primates.
B. Its most important goals are the understanding and modification of mental events.
C. It focuses on environmental, rather than mental, causes of behavior.

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

A. predicting and modifying mental events.
B. predicting and modifying behaviors.
C. understanding the workings of the unconscious mind
D. understanding the workings of the conscious mind.

5. Psychoanalysts state that dreams are expressions of unconscious conflicts. They claim that they can discover patients' unconscious conflicts by interpreting their dreams. The problem is that it is impossible to tell if psychoanalysts' 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

A. unreliable.
B. invalid.
C. unverifiable.

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

A. It required that psychologists give up trying to understand consciousness.
B. It argued that a science of psychology was not possible.
C. It implied that psychologists need to study different levels of awareness.

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