According to the discussion about the rise of cognitive psychology,
a. enthusiasm for behaviorism decreased because it was difficult to explain complex human behavior using only the concepts from learning theory.
b. Piaget's research on children's thinking was actually ignored until cognitive psychology was well established in the 1970s.
c. modern linguistics favors behaviorism rather than cognitive approaches.
d. behavioral approaches to human memory are still more widely accepted than cognitive approaches.
Question 2
Which of the following students provides the best summary of the decline of behaviorism and the rising popularity of the cognitive approach?
a. Sarah: Psychologists began to realize that the behaviorists only emphasized behavior, and they admired how the cognitive approach emphasized people's emotional experiences.
b. Harlan: Many psychologists favored the cognitive approach, because the behaviorist approach could not account for complex thought processes.
c. Ilia: Most psychologists thought that the behaviorist approach was too heavily influenced by its early gestalt principles.
d. Savita: In general, psychologists realized that the cognitive approach was better than the behaviorist approach in explaining individual differences.
Psychology Vector Icon
Will the sun rise tomorrow? Are you sure? “Cause and effect” vs. sense experience.
Age-related cross-sectional changes on a variety of cognitive tasks. Note that although both ...
The Nile Delta will be strongly affected by a rise in sea level of 50 cm
Correlations between scores on a psychology test and number of boiled kumquats eaten per month
Bandura's social-cognitive model of human behaviour