Which of the Following Statements Is True of William James's

question 91

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of William James's contribution to psychology?

• A)He argued that the stream of consciousness was fluid and continuous.
• B)He theorized that experience can be broken down into objective sensations and subjective feelings.
• C)He pointed out that people were social creatures who influenced one another.
• D)He believed that organisms learn to behave only through reinforcement.

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Definitions:

Automaticity

The ability to process information with little or no effort.

Encoding

The process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory, part of how information is processed and retained.

Information-Processing Approach

A perspective in cognitive psychology that examines how humans interpret, store, and retrieve knowledge, paralleling human thought processes to computer operations.

Processing Limitations

Refers to the bounds on the ability of individuals to process information, due to various cognitive or neural constraints.