PSYCH 121 EXAM 1 (CH 1-3) QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
In the biobehavioral approach to answering questions about behavior, what is the
primary focus? - Answers - Functional relations between environment and behavior
The sentence our behavior changes environment that intern may influence subsequent
selection is the definition of what? - Answers - Counterselection
Which of the following are accurate descriptions of the inferred-process approach? -
Answers - None of the answers is an accurate description of the inferred-process
approach.
What is blindsight? - Answers - A condition resulting from brain damage, in which a
patient behaviors nonverbally as if he can see, but speaks as if he cannot see.
What is the inferred-process approach to answer questions about behavior? - Answers -
All of the answers are correct
Skinner assumed internal, unobservable events were: - Answers - Part of the behavior
we study
Our evolutionary heritage - Answers - Is the foundation of the content of this course
According to your text, what is behavior? - Answers - All the activities in which an
organism engages
What is the definition of methodological behaviorism? - Answers - An approach to the
study of behavior which hold that scientific psychology should restrict its attention to
observed behavior which can be measured directly
What is the definition of environment-behavior relations? - Answers - The orderly
relations between environmental and behavioral events, resulting from either natural
selection or selection by reinforcement
What is the definition of counterselections? - Answers - Selected environment-behavior
relations that alter the environment and thereby influence subsequent selection
What is the definition of the comparative approach? - Answers - An approach to
studying behavior which looks at the comparison of human behavior with that of other
species
To study complex behavior, the researchers in the bio-behavioral tradition - Answers -
use controlled experiments to formulate principles.
, Simple processed repeated over time - Answers - May produce great diversity
What is the definition of information processing: - Answers - An approach to studying
behavior in which the structures and processes of digital computers are used as a
metaphor for inferred structures and processes thought to intervene between the
environment and behavior
What is the definition of the developmental approach? - Answers - An approach to
studying behavior which examines behavior over the life history of the individual
The inclusion of micro behavior and physiology in a science of behavior is called: -
Answers - Radical behaviorism
True or false: Skinner believed physiological research had much to offer the science of
behavior. - Answers - True
What is the definition of the neuropsychological approach? - Answers - An approach to
studying behavior which examines the effects of neural damage on behavior,
particularly in humans
What is the definition of ecologically valid observation? - Answers - It involves
determining functional relations between environment and behavior before collecting
data.
In the inferred-process approach, researchers look at relations between environmental
events and behavior: - Answers - then infer sub-behavioral processes which are said to
be validated by further environmental-behavior measurement.
What is the definition of behavioral engineering? - Answers - The technology of
changing behavior by altering the contemporary environment.
What is the definition of neurotransmitter? - Answers - Chemical compounds that allow
a neuron to affect the functioning of the neurons on which it synapses.
All selection systems have units of reproduction. The unit of reproduction at the level of
biology (biological level of selection) is: - Answers - The gene
What is the definition of ecologically valid observation? - Answers - Observation
obtained in the environments in which behavior originated and now normally occurs
Scientific interpretation is the process whereby: - Answers - principles derived from
experimental analysis are used to account for observations that cannot be subjected to
experimental analysis directly
VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
In the biobehavioral approach to answering questions about behavior, what is the
primary focus? - Answers - Functional relations between environment and behavior
The sentence our behavior changes environment that intern may influence subsequent
selection is the definition of what? - Answers - Counterselection
Which of the following are accurate descriptions of the inferred-process approach? -
Answers - None of the answers is an accurate description of the inferred-process
approach.
What is blindsight? - Answers - A condition resulting from brain damage, in which a
patient behaviors nonverbally as if he can see, but speaks as if he cannot see.
What is the inferred-process approach to answer questions about behavior? - Answers -
All of the answers are correct
Skinner assumed internal, unobservable events were: - Answers - Part of the behavior
we study
Our evolutionary heritage - Answers - Is the foundation of the content of this course
According to your text, what is behavior? - Answers - All the activities in which an
organism engages
What is the definition of methodological behaviorism? - Answers - An approach to the
study of behavior which hold that scientific psychology should restrict its attention to
observed behavior which can be measured directly
What is the definition of environment-behavior relations? - Answers - The orderly
relations between environmental and behavioral events, resulting from either natural
selection or selection by reinforcement
What is the definition of counterselections? - Answers - Selected environment-behavior
relations that alter the environment and thereby influence subsequent selection
What is the definition of the comparative approach? - Answers - An approach to
studying behavior which looks at the comparison of human behavior with that of other
species
To study complex behavior, the researchers in the bio-behavioral tradition - Answers -
use controlled experiments to formulate principles.
, Simple processed repeated over time - Answers - May produce great diversity
What is the definition of information processing: - Answers - An approach to studying
behavior in which the structures and processes of digital computers are used as a
metaphor for inferred structures and processes thought to intervene between the
environment and behavior
What is the definition of the developmental approach? - Answers - An approach to
studying behavior which examines behavior over the life history of the individual
The inclusion of micro behavior and physiology in a science of behavior is called: -
Answers - Radical behaviorism
True or false: Skinner believed physiological research had much to offer the science of
behavior. - Answers - True
What is the definition of the neuropsychological approach? - Answers - An approach to
studying behavior which examines the effects of neural damage on behavior,
particularly in humans
What is the definition of ecologically valid observation? - Answers - It involves
determining functional relations between environment and behavior before collecting
data.
In the inferred-process approach, researchers look at relations between environmental
events and behavior: - Answers - then infer sub-behavioral processes which are said to
be validated by further environmental-behavior measurement.
What is the definition of behavioral engineering? - Answers - The technology of
changing behavior by altering the contemporary environment.
What is the definition of neurotransmitter? - Answers - Chemical compounds that allow
a neuron to affect the functioning of the neurons on which it synapses.
All selection systems have units of reproduction. The unit of reproduction at the level of
biology (biological level of selection) is: - Answers - The gene
What is the definition of ecologically valid observation? - Answers - Observation
obtained in the environments in which behavior originated and now normally occurs
Scientific interpretation is the process whereby: - Answers - principles derived from
experimental analysis are used to account for observations that cannot be subjected to
experimental analysis directly
