WorksheetsBehaviorism: John B Watson
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Watson chose to pursue research with white rats, he said, because he ____.
wanted to maintain a close association with biology
wanted to dissociate himself from philosophy
wanted to dissociate himself from his original pursuits in theology
could not learn to do introspection
Watson’s work has been involved with which of the following divisions of psychology?
animal psychology
industrial/organizational psychology
behaviorism
developmental psychology
All of the above.
Behaviorism was officially established in ____.
1907, with Bekhterev's Objective Psychology
1908, with Watson's lectures at Yale
1911, with McDougall's Psychology: The Study of Behavior
1911, with McDougall's Psychology: The Study of Behavior
Watson has been criticized for which of the following?
methods of behaviorism
his childrearing beliefs
his personality
All of the above.
Watson believed that the behavior of people as consumers of goods and services could be predicted and controlled, just like the behavior of ____.
machines
rats
animals
organisms
The most significant public impact of Watson's varied undertakings was to ____.
introduce pop psychology as a new field
prepare the way for Skinner
transform childrearing practices
eliminate all remains of functionalism from the science of psychology
In Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It, Watson argues that psychology is ____.
a purely experimental branch of natural science
a radical environmentalism
a return to Descartes's dualism
big enough to include both mental and behavioral phenomena
Watson argued that the failure of psychology as a natural science was due to ____.
the fact that data of introspection cannot be replicated
blaming the observer rather than the method for failure to replicate in introspection
the failure to operationally define terms in common use by psychologists
All of the choices are correct.
For Watson, the goal of psychology is ____.
a utopia based on operant conditioning principles
the prediction and control of behavior
the expansion of Pavlovian conditioning to voluntary behaviors
the reduction of cognitive processes to their biological correlates
Watson argued that areas of applied psychology can be considered scientific because they ____.
are obviously so by their very nature
were considered to be so even by Wundt
were consistent with the theory of evolution
seek general laws for the prediction and control of behavior
