Your Office Window Is 35 Feet High

question 39

Multiple Choice

Your office window is 35 feet high.Looking out your window, you find that the top of a statue lines up exactly with the bottom of a building that is 600 horizontal feet from your office, as is shown in the figure below.The statue is 125 horizontal feet from the building.How tall is the statue?

• A) 6.48 feet
• B) 9.71 feet
• C) 7.29 feet
• D) 10 feet

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Definitions:

Behaviourism

A psychological approach to understanding abnormal behaviour devised by John B. Watson (1858–1935), which declared that psychology must be restricted to the study of observable features, that is, the behaviour of organisms. Watson considered abnormal functioning to be learned and so believed it could be unlearned. His model for learning was derived from Ivan Pavlov’s (1849–1936) studies of classical conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit similar responses.

Watson

John B. Watson, an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.

Early Behaviourists

Psychologists or researchers in the early 20th century who focused on observable behaviors rather than internal processes, founding behaviorism.