Albert Bandura Found Through His Research That ____

question 177

Multiple Choice

Albert Bandura found through his research that ____.

• A) rats who had previously wandered through a maze learned it faster once they began being rewarded for making it to the end
• B) when left on their own, cats would eventually find their way out of a box through a process of trial and error
• C) children will readily imitate the behavior of aggressive adults as long as the adults were not punished
• D) chimpanzees did not need to use trial-and-error to determine how to use a stick to reach a banana, indicating that learning can occur without behaving

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Definitions:

Catatonic Behavior

a type of behavior observed in schizophrenia and some other psychiatric disorders characterized by stupor, rigidity, or unresponsiveness to the environment.

Hallucinations

Perceptions in the absence of external stimuli, such as seeing, hearing, feeling, or smelling things that aren't there, often found in psychiatric conditions or drug use.

Korsakoff Syndrome

Permanent loss of the ability to learn new information (anterograde amnesia) and to retrieve old information (retrograde amnesia) caused by diencephalic damage resulting from chronic alcoholism or malnutrition that produces a vitamin B deficiency.

Traumatic Brain Injury

A condition caused by an external force leading to temporary or permanent brain damage.