Changes in How Individuals Reason About the Nature of Knowledge

question 50

Multiple Choice

Changes in how individuals reason about the nature of knowledge is called:

• A) epistemic development.
• B) formal operational thinking.
• C) hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
• D) concrete operations.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus after it has been repeatedly associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

A training technique in which two stimuli are paired repeatedly; the response initially caused by the second stimulus becomes triggered by the first stimulus after some time.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus after it has been repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior learning or conditioning.