With Which of the following statements would a behaviorist agree?

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1. Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?

   A. At an early oral stage children usually start to explore their environment but experience control and discipline from their parents
   B. Fixation at the anal stage results in children deriving pleasure in adulthood from activities such as overeating, smoking, drinking and kissing
   C. At the genital stage children discover pleasure from touching their genitals
   D. During the latency period sexual impulses are rechanneled into activities such as sport, learning and social activities

2. The foot- in- the- door technique involves asking people to agree to a_______request first to increase the like hood that they will comply with a_______request later.

   A. large; small
   B. small; large
   C. large; large
   D. large; larger

3. In the 1957 Sidney Lumet film Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors have to decide over the guilt or innocence of a young man changed with the murder of his father. At the outset, all but one of the jurors are convinced of the youth’s guilt. The lone juror (played by Henry Fond (a) actively attempts to change their minds, standing firm, committed self-confident and unwavering. One by one the other jurors change sides, until in the end they all agree that the accused in not guilty. Which form of social influence is this an example of?

   A. Conformity
   B. Minority influence
   C. Normative influence
   D. Informational influence

4. In the 1957 Sidney Lumet film Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors have to decide over the guilt or innocence of a young man changed with the murder of his father. At the outset, all but one of the jurors are convinced of the youth’s guilt. The lone juror (played by Henry Fond (a) actively attempts to change their minds, standing firm, committed self-confident and unwavering. One by one the other jurors change sides, until in the end they all agree that the accused in not guilty. Which form of social influence is this an example of?

   A. Conformity
   B. Minority influence
   C. Normative influence
   D. Informational influence

5. Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
   1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
   2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
   3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
   4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 3 & 4
   C. 1 & 4
   D. 2 & 3

6. Phobias can be very debilitating and distressing phenomena. Which, if any, of the following statements are correct in relation to Watson and Rayner’s (1920) research into them?
   1:Watson and Rayner speculated that the complexity of emotional responsiveness in adults might be explained by the conditioning of children’s simple emotional reactions when they are exposed to new stimuli
   2:Watson and Rayner found evidence for emotional from a test trial in which the rat was accompanied by the noise
   3:The fear reaction in Albert could be produced by a loud noise
   4:None of the above

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 4

7. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

   A. The rods and cones in the retina function in bright and dim light respectively
   B. The cones are of three types, which are selective to different ranges of light wavelength
   C. The information from the cones is re-organized in the retina to give-green, red and blue-yellow opponent channels
   D. There is also group of large retinal cells alongside the smaller color-opponent cells that respond to the difference between the luminances in their center and surrounding regions

8. Which of the following statements about the cortex is FALSE?

   A. Within the cortex, the general flow of local information runs vertically
   B. Within the cortex, information flows to cells in other layers above and below the activated cells
   C. Hubel and Wiesel (19613) discovered that all cortical neurons respond best the spots of light
   D. All of the above

9. Which of the following statements is NOT true in relation to measure of dispersion?

   A. The range is the difference between the maximum and minimum data values
   B. The most commonly used measure of dispersion is standard deviation (SD)
   C. The standard deviation is equal to the square of the sum of the squares of all the differences (deviations) between each score and the mean, divided by the number of scores
   D. The square root of the standard deviation is called the variance

10. Which of the following statements are correct?

    A. A child who understands that stealing is bad will not steal in real life
    B. Kohlberg’s theory says that stages of moral development require that certain cognitive development has already taken place
    C. Human beings have capacity for complex learning
    D. All of the above