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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