10.1 What ethical and moral considerations do you think were involved in the Little Albert study?
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10.2 How
did Watson establish a conditioned emotional response in Albert? Did
that response generalize to other stimuli? If so, to what kind of
stimuli?
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10.3 WasWatson
concerned about the practical value of behaviorism? If your answer is
yes, to what areas of everyday life did he apply his findings?
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10.4 Describe Watson’s approach to child rearing. What were the results of that approach within his family?
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10.5 In
Watson’s 1913 article, what criticisms did he make of structuralism and
functionalism? On what basis did he argue that applied psychology could
be called scientific?
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10.6 How were Watson’s ideas received by the younger generation of psychologists?
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10.7 What research methods did Watson accept for a scientific psychology?
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10.8 Why was Watson’s use of verbal reports considered to be controversial?
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10.9 How did the behaviorists’ view of the role and task of human subjects differ from that of the introspectionists?
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10.10 Discuss how Watson’s subject matter and methodology continued the atomistic, mechanistic, empiricistic tradition.
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10.11 How did Watson distinguish between responses and acts? How did he distinguish between explicit and implicit responses?
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10.12 Describe Watson’s views on instinct and thought processes.
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10.13 How do the studies of Albert and Peter support Watson’s ideas on the role of learning in emotion?
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10.14 Explain the reasons for behaviorism’s popular appeal.
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10.15 Describe Lashley’s law of mass action and principle of equipotentiality.
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10.16 In what way did Lashley’s research results discredit a portion of Watson’s system?
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10.17 Do
you think Watson’s behaviorism would have become so popular without the
earlier work of the functional psychologists? Explain your answer.
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10.18 On what grounds did McDougall criticize Watson’s form of behaviorism?
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