Welcome to your Chapter 1 - Self Study Quiz
1. Which of the following features of introspective psychology did behaviorism object to?
2. One of the groups of rats in Tolman and Honzik’s maze experiment went unrewarded for 10 days and was then rewarded after that. What prediction would a strict behaviorist make about these rats’ performance after the first day of rewarded behavior? (or Day 11 of the study.)
3. Suppose I always walk South to get to the cafeteria but just moved to the other side of campus and now I have to walk North. If I were a rat in Tolman, Ritchie, and Kalish’s study of spatial learning, what would I likely do? (Assume that trips to the cafeteria are rewarding for me, and I go every day.)
4. Which crucial idea came out of Tolman’s studies of cognitive maps and has continued to play an important role in cognitive science?
5. Which of these behaviors only requires serial processing, in the way behaviorists envisioned?
7. Which crucial idea came out of applying the Turing machine to human minds?
8. What important concept in cognitive science is exemplified by Chomsky’s transformational grammar?
9. According to Miller, the advantage of recoding in an immediate memory task is that it does which of the following?
10. Which of the following is a consistent theme in the work of Chomsky, Miller, and Broadbent?
11. Behaviorists thought that even complex behaviors like language could be explained as a series of conditioned responses.
12. Chomsky’s theory of syntax illustrates the hierarchical nature of language (as described by Lashley).
