John B. Watson - 2024 ARGOS

Question

This psychologist manipulated light levels to test how “kinaesthetic sensations” affected a rat’s ability to navigate a maze. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this behaviorist who, with Harvey Carr, tested conditioning in rats by adjusting the lengths of paths in a maze in the Kerplunk experiment.

ANSWER: John B. Watson [or John Broadus Watson]

[10m] Edward Tolman’s experiments on rats in mazes influenced his idea that people build “cognitive maps” to help with this type of learning. This type of stage follows the phallic stage in Freud’s psychosexual development model.

ANSWER: latent [accept latent learning; accept latency stage]

[10h] This behaviorist found that removing parts of the cortex of rats did not affect their performance in mazes, leading him to propose equipotentiality and the mass action principle. This psychologist attempted to find the location of memory storage units called engrams.

ANSWER: Karl Lashley [accept Karl Spencer Lashley]

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2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	6.00	40%	20%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%

Data


Hu up Jinning they Tao	Banned from ARGOS	0	0	0
Import Pandas	Pahkin' the Ahgo	10	0	10
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	0	0	0
She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	0	0	0
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	10	0	10
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	10	10	20
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	0	0	0
Cry of the Common Loon	A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	10	0	10
Berkeley	Stanford+	10	10	20
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	10	10	20
Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	10	0	10
Thompson et al.	I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	0	10	10
throw away your cards, rally in the streets	UBC	0	0	0
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	\|madam\|	10	0	10
BHSU Rebirth	Northeast by Northwestern	10	0	10
Clown Senpais	Notre Dame	0	0	0
Clown Squad	BHSU ReFantazio	0	0	0
That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	hawk two of	10	0	10
WashU	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	10	0	10
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	10	0	10
Limp Franceskit	Cien Años de Quizboledad	0	0	0
Cambridge	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	0	0	0
Simple Vibes	Defying Suavity	10	0	10
12 Litres of Green Tea	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	0	0	0
Walston et. al.	jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	10	0	10