Test Hints: Test 3 (Chapters 5 and 6)
There are 30 multiple choice questions drawn directly from the text nearly equally from both chapters.
There are four Short Answer Questions. You MUST answer these questions in order to pass the test. A successful answer will be complete. Points will be deducted for incomplete answers and for errors.
Here is a sample answer to the question, "Who was John Locke and why was he important to behavioral psychology."
John Locke was an British empiricist philosopher who coined the tabula rasa or blank slate metaphor. Locke's metaphor implied that the nurture side of the nature-nuture problem was more important. Later psychologists like John B. Watson believed strongly that behavior was primarily influenced by the environment.
Short Answer Hints:
Garcia and Koelling and taste aversion
Buss and jealousy
Latent learning
Response set (make four triangles...)
New Hints
Hebb's system links muscles, senses, and nervous system
Sense organs are receptors, muscles are effectors
Hebb believed that understanding the nervous system was key
Learning does alter neurological connections
For Hebb, learning is the creation of permanent connections between neurons
Plasticity refers to change
Cell assemblies form from contiguity
Reductionist theories break concepts down to the simplest components
Tolman's theory assumed animals have goals and intentions
The behavioral field is what is obvious to the senses
At present, cell assemblies and memory are metaphors
Know: leveling and closure (Gestalt concepts)
Constructivism