Which One of the Following Statements Best Describes the View

question 80

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements best describes the view of early behaviorists about how learning can best be studied?

• A) Psychologists can determine how learning occurs only if they can identify its physiological basis.
• B) Introspection-reporting what and how one is thinking-is likely to yield the most accurate results.
• C) To study learning scientifically, researchers must confine their investigations to animal research in a laboratory setting.
• D) The study of learning will be more objective and scientific if only observable events are considered.

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Definitions:

Relative Frequency Distribution

A way to show how often each value in a dataset occurs relative to the total number of values.

Continuous Quantitative Data

Data that can take on any value within a given range and is measurable, often representing measurements or amounts.

Class Intervals

Ranges of values in a dataset that are used to group the data into classes for frequency distribution analysis.

Absolute Class Frequency

The number of data points in a dataset that belong to a specific category without considering any relative measures.