Question 1) For Skinner, the causes of behaviour lie in the immediate environment; lie in the organism's history; lie inside the organism itself;  all of the above

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Question 1) For Skinner, the causes of behaviour lie in the immediate environment;

lie in the organism's history;

lie inside the organism itself;

 all of the above.

Question 2) For Skinner, verbal behaviour is any behaviour produced by the mouth or vocal apparatus;

   restricted to behaviour that makes use of spoken or written language;

  behaviour that is reinforced through the mediation of other persons;

   behaviour that is symbolic.

Question 3)

For which of the following reasons did Thorndike argue against the use of introspection?
i) It restricts the domain of psychology to articulate adults;
ii) It erroneously assumed a person in a particular mental state knows more about that state than another observer;
iii) It artificially separates mental states from the behaviours that they underlie;
iv) It changes the mental state that is its object.

  i only;

   i and ii only;

   i, ii, and iii only;

   i, ii, iii, and iv.

Question 4

Skinner believed that behaviour was

  purposeless;

   purposeful;

   purely mechanical;

   unpredictable.

Question 5)

Skinner's 'radical behaviourism' differed from Watson's behaviourism in that

  Skinner believed that organisms were born with greater innate capacities than did Watson;

   Skinner believed that mental processes had a small part to play in psychological explanation rather than no role at all;

  Skinner believed the organism to be active rather than the passive recipient of environmental stimulation;

   Skinner believed that thinking and behaviour were radically different from one another whereas Watson did not.

Question 6)

Thinking, according to Watson, is performed by

  the immaterial mind;

   the brain only;

   the brain and peripheral nervous system;

   the whole body.

Question 7)

Thorndike's Law of Effect is underpinned by

  the association of ideas;

   the association of stimulus and response;

   connections between neurons;

   the connection between motor and visual sensations.

Question 8)

Watson believed that behaviour was the causal effect of

 an environmental stimulus;

  an intention to act;

   the organism's life history;

spontaneous nervous activity.

Question 9)

Watson conceptualised thinking as

  talking to ourselves;

  manipulating mental representations;

  evoking visual images;  

seeing the connections between different concepts.

Question 10)

What, for Thorndike, is an action?

  any muscular movement;

   only those muscular movements preceded by a conscious intention;

   only those muscular movements accompanied by conscious experience;

only those muscular movements preceded by an act of free will.